The biggest single entity that scientists have identified in the universe is a supercluster of galaxies called the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. It's so wide that light takes about 10 billion years to move across the entire structure. For perspective, the universe is only 13.8 billion yea...
The homogeneity was explained by the theory of inflation, a highly crucial aspect of the Big Bang modelof the Universe, a model that is currently believed to be the most convincing explanation of the birth of our Universe. However, the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall is a supercluster that...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals the supercluster Westerlund 1, home of one of the largest known stars. Westerlund 1-26, a red supergiant, has a radius more than 1,500 times that of the sun.(Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA) UY Scuti's large radius does not make it the most mas...
astronomers announced that the Virgo Supercluster is just one lobe of an even larger structure, beautifully known as Laniakea, or "Immeasurable heaven" in Hawaiian. The name originated from Nawa'a Napoleon, an