The Big Ring is the second of these ultra-large structures to be found by PhD student Alexia Lopez. The Big Ring is located 9.2 billion light-years from Earth, and has a circumference of about 4 ...

In 2021, British PhD student Alexia Lopez was analysing the light coming from distant quasars when she made a startling discovery. She detected a giant, almost symmetrical arc of galaxies 9.3 billion ...

He said: "Alexia Lopez has discovered a remarkable effect which appears to substantiate the conformal cyclic cosmological model that I originally suggested in the early years of the 21st Century.

ALEXIA M. LOPEZ/Jeremiah Horrock. An arc of galaxies that spans 3.3 billion light years – about 3.5 per cent of the observable universe – presents a big problem for one of the core tenets of ...

A Nobel Prize winning scientist has praised the "remarkable" work of an astrophysicist at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). PhD student Dr Alexia Lopez discovered the Giant Arc - a ...

A Nobel Prize winning scientist has praised the "remarkable" work of an astrophysicist at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). PhD student Dr Alexia Lopez discovered the Giant Arc - a ...