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The Emperor's New Arc: gigaparsec patterns abound in a $\Lambda$CDM universe

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arxiv 2502.03515 v1 pith:LPW52GA3 submitted 2025-02-05 astro-ph.CO

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Recent discoveries of apparent large-scale features in the structure of the universe, extending over many hundreds of megaparsecs, have been claimed to contradict the large-scale isotropy and homogeneity foundational to the standard ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model. We explicitly test and refute this conjecture using FLAMINGO-10K, a new and very large cosmological simulation of the growth of structure in a $\Lambda$CDM context. Applying the same methods used in the observations, we show that patterns like the "Giant Arc", supposedly in tension with the standard model, are, in fact, common and expected in a $\Lambda$CDM universe. We also show that their reported significant overdensities are an algorithmic artefact and unlikely to reflect any underlying structure.

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    astro-ph.CO 2026-04 unverdicted novelty 5.5 of 10

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    astro-ph.CO 2025-05 reject novelty 5.0 of 10

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