The Ladder of Scale · structure
Laniakea Supercluster
Supercluster · 520 million ly
- Within
- Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex
- Recognised
- 2014
- Population
- ~100,000 galaxies, 10¹⁷ solar masses
- Size (ly)
- 520000000
- Kind
- Supercluster
Notes
Defined not by where galaxies are but by where they are going: Tully and colleagues mapped the peculiar velocities of 8,000 galaxies and drew the boundary where flows diverge. Everything inside falls toward the same place. The name is Hawaiian for 'immeasurable heaven'.
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