{"id":30029,"date":"2025-02-11T12:29:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30029"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:16:00","slug":"quipu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/quipu\/","title":{"rendered":"Quipu"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Quipu Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Astronomers recently identified what could be the largest structure ever found in the known universe, named Quipu.<\/p>\n<h2>About Quipu<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a recently discovered <strong>superstructure <\/strong>in which <strong>galaxies group together in clusters <\/strong>and clusters of clusters (superclusters).<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>contains <\/strong>nearly <strong>70 galactic superclusters.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>largest known structure in the universe in terms of length.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Quipu <strong>stretches <\/strong>an astonishing <strong>1.3 billion light-years across<\/strong> and contains an estimated 200 quadrillion solar masses.<\/li>\n<li>It is<strong> over 13,000 times<\/strong> the length of<strong> the Milky Way.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is also hundreds of <strong>thousands of times more massive than a single galaxy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Inspired by the Incan counting system of knotted cords, the structure mirrors its namesake with a <strong>long central filament and multiple branching filaments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Despite its vast size, Quipu will not last forever. Scientists believe it <strong>will eventually break into smaller, collapsing units.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They describe it as a &#8220;<strong>transient configuration&#8221; <\/strong>that will change over time.<\/li>\n<li>Studying Quipu may help refine cosmological models. It could offer new insights into galaxy evolution and large-scale cosmic dynamics.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Quipu FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is a Galaxy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A galaxy is a vast system of stars, gas, dust, dark matter, and other celestial objects bound together by gravity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is a light year?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A light-year is the distance light travels in one Earth year. One light-year is about 6 trillion miles (9 trillion km).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is a Solar mass?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A solar mass (M\u2609) is a unit of mass used in astronomy, equal to the mass of the Sun. It is approximately 2 \u00d7 10\u00b3\u2070 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news18.com\/viral\/astronomers-discover-quipu-the-largest-structure-in-the-universe-aa-9222329.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">N18<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quipu is a recently discovered superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}