The Ladder of Scale · structure
South Pole Wall
Filament · 1.4 billion ly
- Within
- —
- Distance (ly)
- 500000000
- Recognised
- 2020
- Population
- a wall of galaxies
- Size (ly)
- 1400000000
- Kind
- Filament
Notes
Hidden behind the Milky Way in the southern sky and only mapped in 2020, by inferring where mass must be from how nearby galaxies move rather than by seeing it.
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