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This artist's impression shows the mysterious alignments between the spin axes of quasars and the large-scale structures they inhabit; these alignments are over billions of light-years and are the largest known in the Universe. Image credit: ESO / M. Kornmesser.

Mysterious Alignment of Quasar Axes with Universe’s Large-Scale Structures Revealed

Nov 20, 2014 by News Staff

European astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have found that the rotation axes of quasars are parallel to each other over very long distances...