BOSS Great Wall

It was discovered by a research team from several institutions, consisting of: Heidi Lietzen, Elmo Tempel, Lauri Juhan Liivamägi, Antonio Montero-Dorta, Maret Einasto, Alina Streblyanska, Claudia Maraston, Jose Alberto Rubiño-Martín and Enn Saar.

[1] The superstructure is roughly 1 billion light years in diameter, and has a total mass approximately 10,000 times the Milky Way galaxy.

[3] This allowed the team to scale the data using known values, from local superclusters, to determine the overall morphology of the BOSS Great Wall.

The question of whether the supercluster complex is moving together or being slowly separated by the expanding universe is a key factor to this discussion.

[4] The BOSS Great Wall's discovery, and the data gained therein, should prove very beneficial for astronomers who study the overall structure of the cosmic web.

This graphic represents a large supercluster system, like the BOSS Great Wall, with its clusters, voids, and galaxy filaments.
This figure shows the superclusters of the BOSS Great Wall, on Cartesian coordinates.