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UC researcher unveils radical new perspective on the universe 🌌   Congratulations to University of Canterbury Science PhD candidate Marco Galoppo whose out-of-this-world research is challenging accepted theories of modern cosmology. Marco has co-written a new research paper with francesco sylos labini from the Enrico Fermi Research Institute in Italy that’s making waves in astronomy circles and has been featured in Science magazine and Scientific American recently. If confirmed, their results would force physicists to rethink some basic ideas about the universe, including what dark matter is, and how gravity shapes matter on the largest scales. The accepted assumption, known as the cosmological principle, has been that matter should be distributed evenly, with no preferred direction within the cosmos. With telescopes both on Earth and in space, such as the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and Euclid, delivering more detailed maps of the universe, this assumption is now being tested. Marco and Francesco's research unveils evidence that the distribution of galaxies does not become uniform when tested on the largest scales. Instead, they found directional patterns extending across distances of several billion light years. #UCResearch #ShapingtheFuture