Object Analysis

The Sloan Great Wall is one of the largest known structures in the observable universe. It is a cosmic filament of galaxies that spans approximately 1.37 billion light-years in length. It is located about 1 billion light-years from Earth.

Discovered in 2003 using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, it is nearly three times larger than the CfA2 Great Wall. It is a massive wall of galaxy clusters, including the Coma and Corona Borealis superclusters. It is not a "bound" object, but rather a pattern in the large-scale distribution of matter.

Structures like the Sloan Great Wall provide a map of the universe's growth. They are the result of tiny density fluctuations in the early universe being amplified by gravity over 13.8 billion years. It represents the "scaffolding" of the cosmos, connecting the major clusters of galaxies in the cosmic web.