The Ladder of Scale · structure
The cosmic web
Cosmological · 1 billion ly
- Coordinates
- origin — we are inside it
- RA (deg)
- 0
- Dec (deg)
- 0
- Within
- Observable universe
- Recognised
- 1996
- Population
- all structure
- Size (ly)
- 1000000000
- Kind
- Cosmological
Notes
The pattern everything above belongs to: matter drawn by gravity into sheets, then filaments, then knots at the intersections, with voids opening between them. Simulations grow it from the microwave background's faintest ripples and get the observed pattern back.
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