Newly Discovered Billion-Light-Year Galactic Wall May Be biggest-Object in the Known Universe

Astronomers have spotted the largest galaxy supercluster, comprising of about 830 galaxies linked together, recognized as the BOSS Great Wall. Heidi Lietzen of the Canary Islands institution of Astrophysics and her team exposed this huge structure of galaxies and it is considered to be the biggest cosmic structure establish yet. They discovered it when they were analyzing clumped-together galaxies in a vast area between 4.5 and 6.4 billion light years away. Lietzen says “It was so a great deal bigger than anything else in this volume.”

 In 2014, astronomers also exposed the other two superclusters, the Sloan Great partition and the other called Laniakea- Milky Way was establish to be part of this supercluster system. Both are huge, but the newly spotted BOSS Great Wall, having a mass of about 10,000 times as huge as the Milky Way, is two-thirds larger than either of them.

The BOSS huge Wall comprises of roughly 830 galaxies, those can be seen by telescopes and there are many indistinct ones too that are too far to watch. Individual galaxies like our own Milky Way are linked together by gravity into clusters, and these clusters clump into superclusters. These can in turn connection jointly into long lines of galaxies called walls.

It is not yet long-established that these objects are connected together. Allison Coil, from the University of California in San Diego says “I don’t completely understand why they are linking all of these features together to call them a single structure. There are clearly kinks and bends in this structure that don’t exist as in the Sloan Great Wall.”

Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii, who exposed the Laniakea cluster, says that formative what creates a single structure depends on your definition.

A thicker part of galaxies is traditional, he says, and certainly the new wall contains five times as many galaxies as an average patch of sky. But tracing whether the galaxies are moving together – impossible, given how far absent they are – might provide a different answer.