Astronomers recently discovered what they described as the largest known structure in the universe, which is a wall between the galaxies, with a length of 1.4 billion light years.
According to research published by an international team of astronomers in the magazine "Astrophysics", the wall, which he called the "Antarctic Wall", represents what looks like a "curtain" that runs across the southern borders of the universe (from the perspective of the Earth), and includes thousands of galaxies, this to Besides massive amounts of gases and cosmic dust.
According to the team that discovered the wall, and they are scientists from the French universities of Paris Saclay and Hawaii, the American, it is possible to compare the explored wall with the Great Wall "Sloane", which is the largest gathering of galaxies visions so far in the sky.
Although astronomers have previously discovered giant structures in space such as Silwan and the great “Hercules-Corona Arctic” wall, what distinguishes the “Antarctic wall” is its proximity to Earth, as it is only half a billion light-years away, and is located behind the Milky Way galaxy. , As the bright light of the galaxy obscures the other blocks from view.