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Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall

(Her-CrB GW)
(large slab of galaxies discovered in 2013)

The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall (Her-CrB GW) is a galaxy filament discovered in 2013 in the investigation of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The evidence for it is the many GRBs from the region, implying the region has a relatively dense population of GRB sources, presumed associated with galaxies. It has a redshift in the range of 1.6-2.1, i.e., 10 billion light-years' distant, and is 10 billion light-years in its longer dimension, 7.2 billion light-years wide and 1 billion light-years thick. It displaced the Sloan Great Wall as the largest known structure in the universe. Its size presents scientific questions that promise to influence theories and research.


(large scale structure)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules-Corona_Borealis_Great_Wall
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=Hercules-Corona+Borealis+Great+Wall
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015A%26A...584A..48H/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2014A%26A...561L..12H/abstract
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
1.63.18Gpc10.38GlynearestHercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall
2.13.48Gpc11.34GlyfurthestHercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall
Coordinates:Her-CrB GW
J1700+2745

Referenced by pages:
galaxy filament
Great Wall
Sloan Great Wall (SGW)

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