{"id":4419,"date":"2006-08-02T15:01:11","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2006-08-02T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T15:01:11","slug":"the-universe-reveals-a-big-blobby-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2006\/08\/the-universe-reveals-a-big-blobby-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Reveals a Big Blobby Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"060727_cosmic_ameoba_02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/images\/060727_cosmic_ameoba_02.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"412\" align=\"right\"\/> An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>The galaxies and gas bubbles, called Lyman alpha blobs, are aligned along three curvy filaments that formed about 2 billion years after the universe exploded into existence after the theoretical Big Bang. The filaments were recently seen using the Subaru and Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea.<\/p>\n<p>The galaxies within the newly found structure are packed together four times closer than the universe&#8217;s average.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/scienceastronomy\/060727_largest_object.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">The structure we discovered and others like are probably the precursors of the largest structures we see today which contain multiple clusters of galaxies<\/a>,&#8221; Yamauchi said. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say. The galaxies and gas bubbles, called Lyman alpha blobs, are aligned along three curvy filaments that formed about 2 billion years after the universe exploded into existence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}