The universe houses regions that contain elements that escape our imagination due to the colossal of its size and that have been discovered thanks to dedicated research with indirect methods that allow establishing measurements of gigantic proportions. For example, we bring you this structure that is the largest of the acquaintances of the universe, capable of containing 100,000 galaxies.
A mass that has titanic dimensions
It is well known that at any point in the space gigantic objects are achieved, but it is the so -called “galactic filaments” that They stand out for their dimensions that are terriously giganticmaking us see, along with our galaxy, as an insignificant dot of the universe. They consist of very vast structures that have intergalactic gas inside, celestial bodies and innumerable galaxies.
Which are grouped in the form of walls and threads (hence its name comes), having a size of thousands and even millions of light years. These threads of intergalactic material are also intertwined in a structure of a higher level that is very complex and convoluted, which expert astronomers know it as “cosmic network.” These “galactic filaments” were recently discovered.
The largest galactic filament ever seen throughout the universe
Among these great space masses of the universe, the call stands out Great Wall of Hercules – Corona Boreal which is the greatest of all objects detected by our powerful space telescopes. This was discovered in 2014 and it had been calculated that it had about 1000 million light years of thickness for 7 200 billion light years wide and 10 billion light years long. Inimaginable proportions.
In that year it was estimated that 100,000 galaxies would be necessary as the Milky Way, aligned next to each other, to reach the length of the Great Wall of Hercules – Boreal Corona (it can house many ton 618 that is a monstrous black hole also gigantic). However, new estimates have yielded surprising results because we could have fallen short.
By estimating its size, so much so that the sensors we have today would be overwhelmed when wanting to calculate their borders. And the problem is not only to find its limits, already difficult, but to determine where this phenomenon begins. Another review suggests that this galactic filament is closer to Earth than estimated by the calculations made in 2014.
To calculate the size of these phenomena, scientists use gamma (GRB) bursts that occur in the universe which are very bright and produced, generally, by the collapse of stars that are very massive. With these GRB the researchers build three -dimensional maps in such a way that in a region that has an anomalous concentration You can detect a filament and its size.
It was a finding that was very controversial for many astronomers
At the time of their discovery in the universe, through the method of observation and calculation of the GRB, some scientists belonging to the community of the astronomers had many doubts, so much so that they peeked out the possibility that there would be a data interpretation error. This originated that complementary studies were done during the year 2020 which reaffirmed the results initially given.
Concluding, the great wall of Hercules – Corona Boreal is the largest galactic filament that exists in the known universe (as they presume that they have dark stars could be as old as the time of the Big Bang). Its size is so huge that it is estimated that it could house about 100,000 galaxies of the size of the Milky Way, next to the other to its entire length.
