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• _niko0

  largest object ever discovered in universe is theoretically impossible.

  

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  • *ahem... not "theoretically." This was a principle, not a scientific theory, more assumption that a rulemonospaced
  • anyway, I love how the scientists get excited to rewrite the book so that it's always up-to-datemonospaced
  • << 'theoretically impossible'. Lazy knee-jerk anti-intellectual nonsense. "Previously thought impossible' is much better.mikotondria3
  • almost every article says the same thing, then again, the existence of the universe is theoretically impossible as well_niko
  • mind blown.utopian
  • fyi, it's a cluster of objects, not a single 4 billion light year wide 'thing'.detritus
  • It might not actually break anything either, it might just hint at the universe being several orders of magnitude bigger than we thought it was, in which case the cosmological principle stays intact.detritus
  • bigger than we thought it was, in which case the cosmological principle stays intact.detritus

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