Does this make my bum look 200 million light years wide?

If you (or your ladyfriend) constantly whinge about the size of a particularly troublesome body part, you (and she) can relax. The most massive object in the universe has been found, and it's not jiggling in any bathroom mirror.

From Space.com:

An enormous amoeba-like structure 200 million light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas is the largest known object in the universe, scientists say.
The galaxies and gas bubbles, called Lyman alpha blobs, are aligned along three curvy filaments that formed about 2 billion years after the universe exploded into existence after the theoretical Big Bang. The filaments were recently seen using the Subaru and Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea.

The galaxies within the newly found structure are packed together four times closer than the universe's average.

Some of the gas bubbles are up to 400,000 light years across, nearly twice the diameter of our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy. Scientists think they formed when massive stars born early in the history of the universe exploded as supernovas and blew out their surrounding gases. Another theory is that the bubbles are giant gas cocoons that will one day give birth to new galaxies.

Some of the gas bubbles are 400,000 light years across. It's just...inconceivable.

Someone I know once told me she has panic attacks whenever she thinks about how big the universe is. My stomach kinda goes funny when I think about it, too. Especially when thinking about something bigger that our universe might be inside of.

In the immortal words of Kelly Bundy, the mind wobbles.

Dizzy now. Must lie down.