Quipu (red) is the largest structure found in the local universe. The others are Shapley (blue), Serpens-Corona Borealis (green), Hercules (purple) and Sculptor-Pegasus (beige).

Sonoran Quipu is a lesson in seeing: both in deepening our attention to the world around us, and to our presence within it. Installation view, Cecilia Vicuña: Sonoran Quipu, MOCA Tucson, 2023.

The centerpiece of Vicuña’s latest show, from Oct. 20 to Jan. 21, 2019 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is her work “Quipu desaparecido" (Disappeared Quipu), from which the show gets its name.

Quipu is considered the largest object in the universe in terms of length, beating out previous record-holders like the Laniākea supercluster. The galaxies within Quipu are too far away for us to ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the largest known structure in the universe in terms of length, scientists claim.

For example, local shifts in matter density affect the Hubble constant, which tracks how fast the universe is expanding. These gravitational structures can even tug on the data itself.

Quipu is estimated to span an astonishing 1.4 billion light-years in width and contains approximately 68 galaxy clusters. "If you look at the distribution of the galaxy clusters in the sky within ...