Galaxy filament

id: galaxy-filament-170-12876472
title: Galaxy filament
text: In cosmology, galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of walls of galactic superclusters. These massive, thread-like formations can commonly reach 50/h to 80/h Megaparsecs—with the largest found to date being the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall at around 3 gigaparsecs (9.8 Gly) in length—and form the boundaries between voids. Due to the accelerating expansion of the universe, the individual clusters of gravitationally bound galaxies that make up galaxy f
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description: Largest structures in the universe, made of galaxies
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_filament
date created: 2004-03-15T09:51:53Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T11:50:15Z
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