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Re:A Big Ring on the Sky by jakeinspace on Monday May 27, 2024 @01:38PM (#40492891)
This is true, but at this scale, aren’t we looking at a moderate portion of the visible universe? This is hundreds of thousands or millions of galaxies appearing with some strong correlation, I believe. There are only a few trillion galaxies in the observable universe, so it’s not like we have 10^20 chances to observe random chance correlations like this.

I’m just talking without actually having done a close reading or done the statistics for myself, so I could be quite wrong.

Re:A Big Ring on the Sky by Retric on Monday May 27, 2024 @02:06PM (#40493091)
Check out the preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.07591

It’s less impressive when looking at the background data than how it’s described.