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Giant GRB Ring

(ring of GRB locations)

The Giant GRB Ring is nine gamma-ray bursts that fell within an area of the celestial sphere and within a redshift range over the course of 2004 to 2012. In 2015 the pattern was identified, with analysis that suggested a very low probability that it is a coincidence. If they are from a single astronomical object, it would be larger than any established object and large enough to challenge current cosmological theory: the cosmological principle suggests that given the universe's finite age, at any point in time, there is a maximum to the size of anything other than random, i.e., any possible large scale structure. All such discerned structures large enough to challenge the principle are immediately under suspicion but testing whether such a pattern is truly random (or not) is tricky.


(gamma rays)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_GRB_Ring
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.452.2236B/abstract
https://phys.org/news/2015-09-giant-ring-like-universe.html
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018MNRAS.473.3169B/abstract
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
.7852.24Gpc7.30GlynearestGiant GRB Ring
.8592.36Gpc7.70GlyfurthestGiant GRB Ring
Coordinates:Giant GRB Ring
010213+315456

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