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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamaya80" data-source="post: 29811835" data-attributes="member: 585757">The Big Ring is just that, a two-dimensional structure in the shape of a near-perfect ring facing Earth (likely not a coincidence but rather the reason it was discoverable from Earth). Alexia Lopez later discovered that the ring is actually a corkscrew shape. The Giant Arc is just that, the arc of a circle. Interestingly, it is in the same region of space and the same distance as the Big Ring, so the two structures exist at the same time and place. This suggests they may be part of an even bigger structureWhat we have in the Big Ring is a possible piece to a very big puzzle. First astronomers will need to confirm that it is a real piece, and not some statistical error, systematic bias in data analysis, or statistical fluke. If it holds up then cosmologists will have to work out what the theoretical implications are, and propose testable alternative hypotheses that would account for this cosmology. And the process of science grinds on</blockquote>

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