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It's not a "new" discovery or even the "second". I suggest they read the 2015 paper they are almost copying from.
2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1421
Weird reporting like this is "new" GRB ring out of Swift and Sloan SDSS data.
2015 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_GRB_Ring
New objects:
Big Ring in the Sky is 9.2 billion light-years from Earth. It has a diameter of about 1.3 billion light-years
Giant Arc in the Sky which is 3.3 billion light-years across,