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DESI Survey Finds Cosmic Filaments Aligned, Challenging Uniform Universe

7/8/2026

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Italy's Enrico Fermi Research Center published a study that the universe may not be uniform.
Francesco Sylos Labini and Marco Galoppo used DESI data on over 47 million galaxies to identify filaments and walls aligned across billions of light-years despite the standard model’s homogeneous, isotropic expectation.
The team warned the result does not imply a single cosmic axis or spin and may force SKA recalibration and textbook revisions.

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Italy's Enrico Fermi Research Center published a study that the universe may not be uniform.
Francesco Sylos Labini and Marco Galoppo used DESI data on over 47 million galaxies to identify filaments and walls aligned across billions of light-years despite the standard model’s homogeneous, isotropic expectation.
The team warned the result does not imply a single cosmic axis or spin and may force SKA recalibration and textbook revisions.