Posted on 03/16/2016 3:34:35 PM PDT by MtnClimber
he English language has a few limitations. One such problem is describing size—words like big, humongous and immense don’t come close to describing the objects astronomers are discovering in deep space. There are definitely no words to describe their latest find, dubbed the BOSS Great Wall, which is a supercluster of galaxies over 1 billion light years across, making it the largest structure observed in the universe so far.
The BOSS is named after the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey—an international effort to map galaxies and quasars in the early universe—and is like cosmic webbing. This wall is made up of 830 separate galaxies that gravity has corralled into four superclusters, connected by massive filaments of hot gas, Joshua Sokol reports for New Scientist. This creates a twisting structure that resembles a cosmic honeycomb.
"On the grandest scales, the universe resembles a cosmic web of matter surrounding empty voids – and these walls are the thickest threads," he writes.
Lurking 4.5 to 6.5 billion lightyears away, the BOSS has an estimated mass 10,000 times greater than our own Milky Way and recently described the find in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
I wonder if scientists will detect The Universe Song playing in the background?
“BOSS Great Wall”
Can we make Mexico pay for it?
The Boss, is catchy. Past performers, such as Bruce Springsteen and Diana Ross have used it as their nickname.
“Soopreme Kort? What’s up wit dat?”
Sorry. Wrong thread.
As big as the BOSS is, the Great Attractor is umpteen times bigger and the BOSS, like the rest of the visible universe is moving towards it, whatever ‘it’ is.
Thanks MtnClimber, extra to APoD.
It’s a minor Xeelee construction project.
They have gotten some images of the Great Attractor using X-ray imaging. The Great Attractor is on the opposite side of the center of the Milky Way making it difficult to see. Need to look up how many galaxies are in the Great Attractor.
The lattice work of a mega galactic dyson sphere?
No it was a badly written article, but they found some 822 new galaxies but did not see the GA. It remains totally unknown, invisible, and hidden. No one knows whether it is some gigantic black hole, or something else like a postulated super machine made of cosmic strings and other exotic matter (only found at the beginning of the universe) used to rip a hole in this universe so to travel to another by some super intelligent race or entities who began building whatever it is shortly after the beginning or some hours after the Bang (time would have been much different then and pico-seconds would equal millennia now).
See “Xeelee” for more in-depth details.
Thanks
That’s yuuge.
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