When you peer out into the depths of the cosmos, a mystery lies there, waiting. In a survey of the deep sky, most of the ...

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental assumptions about the universe ...

The relationship between quantum mechanics and classical physics has baffled scientists for decades. In the quantum world, ...

So if we drop the cosmological principle we might possibly get rid of dark energy, too. Astronomers hope soon to know more. The Dark Energy Survey is one project located at the Cerro Tololo Inter ...

Examples of distortion of images of distant galaxies by E and B modes. Credit: SISSA Medialab The Cosmological Principle, which postulates that the universe is homogeneous and isotropic, is at the ...