Cosmic wall spans a billion light years

• Autores: Joshua Sokol
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3064, 2016, pág. 14
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • At a cool billion light years across, a distant complex of galaxy superclusters may be the largest structure yet found in the cosmos. The newly spotted BOSS Great Wall, with a total mass perhaps 10,000 times as great as the Milky Way, is two-thirds bigger again than either of them. Heidi Lietzen of the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics and her team found it by looking for clumped-together galaxies in a vast area between 4.5 and 6.4 billion light years away. In all that space, one dense, giant system stood out