Cosmic structures · Wall of galaxies
Sloan Great Wall
About 1 billion light-years · Light crosses it in 1.4 billion years
- Across
- 1.4 billion light-years
- Vs Earth
- 13,700× Milky Way
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About
The Sloan Great Wall is a vast sheet of galaxies about 1.37 billion light-years long, found in 2003 in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. It is not bound by gravity as one object: it is a chance alignment of superclusters.
A sheet of galaxies 1.37 billion light-years long, found by the Sloan survey in 2003.
At a glance
| Distance | About 1 billion light-years |
|---|---|
| Length | 1.37 billion light-years |
| Found | 2003 |
| Survey | Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
Did you know
- It is about 1/60 of the diameter of the observable universe.
- It was for a time the largest known structure in the universe.
- Over billions of years it will break up into separate clusters.
Simulations
- The Big Bang — How the universe grew from a hot, dense beginning into a web of galaxies, over 13.8 billion years