The Big Ring is centered close to 0 on the x-axis, and spans roughly from –650 to +650, equivalent to about 1.37 billion light years across.

Stranger still, the Big Ring and the Giant Arc were discovered in the same region of sky, at around the same distance – 9.2 billion light-years from Earth.

The Big Ring is not a BAO. BAOs are all a fixed size of around 1 billion light-years in diameter. And thorough inspection of ...

Scientists have discovered a giant ring-shaped structure in space, dubbed the Big Ring. The discovery challenges our understanding of the universe. The scientist who discovered it said it felt ...

However, the Big Ring, along with a handful of other gigantic cosmic structures such as the Sloan Great Wall, and a vast collection of galaxies called The Giant Arc, which was discovered by Lopez ...

The James Webb Space Telescope recently captured an image of Uranus, detailing the ice giant's ring system, its brightest moons and its zestful atmosphere.. The observation, made Feb. 6, comes on ...

The ring of light, known as an Einstein Ring, was discovered in September 2023 by Euclid, a space telescope on a six-year mission to map out the cosmos by observing billions of galaxies.

Scientists have found a rare “Einstein ring” near Earth – stumbling on it almost by accident. The rare phenomenon was spotted in test images from Euclid, a powerful space telescope.

“The agency wishes to clarify that the object, a metallic ring measuring 2.5 metres in diameter and weighing about 500kg, is a fragment of a space object,” the agency said in a statement.