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A Giant Structure in Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe

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Astronomers have found a giant ring of galaxies, some 1.3 billion light-years in diameter.

It doesn't match any known structure or formation mechanism.

The Big Ring , as the structure has been named, could mean that we need to amend the standard model of cosmology.

The discovery was presented at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society .