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Is the universe crystalline?

17 Jun 2002

As astronomers measure redshifts for additional galaxy superclusters, the three-dimensional architecture of the universe becomes more evident. New redshift surveys, reaching ever further into space, are benefiting from fiber optics and increasing automation.

A fresh analysis of current redshift catalogs offers some evidence for a periodic arrangement of superclusters, separated by voids, on a scale of 120 megaparsecs (about 390 million light years). Great walls of galaxies on this scale have been discerned before but the apparent periodicity is new. A new theory might be needed to explain the sort of immense 3D- chessboard structure the researchers seem to be finding in the data, they reported in the recent issue of Nature.

 
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