Quipu was so called, with an Incas name, the largest pile of galaxies ever identified which extends for more than 1.3 billion light years. Because yes, the universe expands, but inside there are boundless concentrations of matter. However strange it may be easier to identify individual galaxies than these megastructures, because they are not quite dense to show a connection, a set of the whole.
Quipu, the name was inspired by the knots measuring tools used by the Inca who recall the filamentous form of the superamasso (this came to mind the astronomers led by Hans Börinberger of the Max-Plank-Institute Für Extraterrestrial Physik, someone there must be passionate there of Inca). To give you an idea of the size, consider that the extension of Quipu is 13 thousand times the diameter of the Milky Way (100 thousand light years). Or, another number: 200 quadrilion of sunscreen.
Our brain cannot imagine similar dimensions, ditto for temporal stairs. It has evolved to deal with kilometers, meters, centuries, thousands of years, little stuff, a beat of eyelash, not even. In any case, the discovery of gender megastructures is important to refine the standard model of the universe because it can influence the cosmic microwave fund (the “fossil” residue of the Big Bang), the Hubble constant, and the large -scale gravitational lens (in cosmic terms), all contained within Einstein’s relativity.
Speaking of Hubble: think that only until a century ago it was believed that the Milky Way, with its hundred billion stars, was the entire universe (this is why many galaxies are still called “nebulae”).
It was Edwin Hubble who discovered that ours is only one of the hundreds of billions of galaxies of the visible universe, and that the universe is expanding.
Each new discovery makes us smaller and smaller and insignificant. Paul Valéry wrote, poetically: “The stars think: you or another, to us who care”. Let alone if he thought quiup.