Astronomers looked back in time and found a monster 5,000 times bigger than our Galaxy. And it's packed full of dark matter
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Astronomers reported the discovery of an extraordinarily massive proto‑supercluster, described as a structure five thousand times the size of the Milky Way and rich in dark matter, dating back to when the universe was about 2.1 billion years old. The find set new distance records for such structures and was highlighted across multiple science outlets.
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