By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our understanding of how the cosmos is built.

Scientists are using cosmic distortions in light to test a bold idea: that the Universe might not be as symmetrical as we’ve ...

This assumption, enshrined as the “cosmological principle,” has let researchers draw sweeping conclusions about the whole universe based only on what we see from our corner of it. “If that turns out ...

This notion of mediocrity has been baked into cosmology, in the form of the “cosmological principle.” Its gist is that the universe is basically the same everywhere we look—homogenized like ...

The team, led by Dr Roger Clowes from UCLan's Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, has identified the LQG which is so significant in size it also challenges the Cosmological Principle: the assumption that ...

PhD student Dr Alexia Lopez, 28, discovered the Giant Arc - a gigantic, ring-shaped structure in space. It is made up of galaxies and galaxy clusters that scientists say is so big - it challenges our ...

Such large structures should not exist according to one of the guiding principles of astronomy, called the cosmological principle. This states that all matter is spread smoothly across the Universe.

The Copernican principle – the Earth is not in a special location within the Universe; and, 3. The Cosmological principle – at any given time the Universe is homogeneous and isotropic (uniform ...