One of the great scientific revolutions began with Copernicus, who opined that we occupied no special place in the Universe. As our view of the Universe expanded, we developed the cosmological ...

More information: James Adam et al, Probing the Cosmological Principle with weak lensing shear, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (2025). On arXiv: DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2411.08560 ...

The Big Ring is making astronomers rethink what they know about the universe. As this enormous formation takes shape, ...

“The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead ...

Feb 11, 2025 Does the universe behave the same way everywhere? Gravitational lenses could help us find out (Nanowerk News) “The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility ...

The Cosmological Principle sets an upper limit of 1.2 billion light-years on the size of any structures – a limit that the Big Ring blatantly disregards.

A stock photo shows a sky full of galaxies and stars. The Big Ring on the Sky was discovered by PhD student Alexia Lopez. mik38/Getty "The Cosmological Principle assumes that the part of the ...

This, Verde explains, is what scientists call the "cosmological principle"—and it includes the tenet that the universe is statistically uniform and the same when measured in different directions.

And what does it mean for the Cosmological Principle, which states that, in all directions, any given patch of space should look pretty much the same as all other patches of space?

Home > Science Newly Discovered Ring of Galaxies Threatens Our Understanding of the Universe According to the cosmological principle, the Big Ring shouldn’t exist. It does anyway.