Discovery of gargantuan ring structure ‘challenges understanding of universe’

An artistic impression of what the Big Ring (shown in blue) and Giant Arc (shown in red) would look like in the sky (Stellarium/University of Central Lancashire)

Scientists have discovered a gargantuan ring-shaped structure – about 1.3 billion light-years in diameter – that they say is so big it challenges our understanding of the universe.

Dubbed the Big Ring, this ultra-large structure – with a circumference of about four billion light-years – was observed in the remote universe, around 9.2 billion light-years away.