+- Scivillage.com Casual Discussion Science Forum (https://www.scivillage.com)
+-- Forum: Science (https://www.scivillage.com/forum-61.html)
+--- Forum: Astrophysics, Cosmology & Astronomy (https://www.scivillage.com/forum-74.html)
+--- Thread: BOSS Supercluster Is So Big It Could Rewrite Cosmological History (/thread-2109.html)
BOSS Supercluster Is So Big It Could Rewrite Cosmological History - C C - Mar 11, 2016
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/boss-supercluster-is-so-big-it-could-rewrite-cosmological-history/
EXCERPT: Astronomers just observed the biggest collection of star stuff that we’ve seen so far. An international team of scientists described a huge wall of galaxies in a little-explored part of the cosmos. It’s over a billion light years long, bristling with 830 galaxies. They have dubbed it the BOSS Great Wall, named after the BOSS survey which spotted it....