List of largest cosmic structures
List of largest structures

List of largest cosmic structures

Section Title: List of largest structures
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Structure name (year discovered)	Maximum dimension (in light-years)	Notes

Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall (2014)	10,000,000,000	Discovered through gamma-ray burst mapping, and is the first structure to exceed 10 billion light-years.

Giant GRB Ring (2015)	5,600,000,000	Discovered through gamma-ray burst mapping. Largest-known regular formation in the observable Universe.

Huge-LQG (2012-2013)	4,000,000,000	Decoupling of 73 quasars. Largest-known large quasar group and the first structure found to exceed 3 billion light-years.

U1.11 LQG (2011)	2,500,000,000	Involves 38 quasars. Adjacent to the Clowes-Campusano LQG.

Clowes–Campusano LQG (1991)	2,000,000,000	Grouping of 34 quasars. Discovered by Roger Clowes and Luis Campusano.

Sloan Great Wall (2003)	1,380,000,000	Discovered through the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

(Theoretical limit)	1,200,000,000	Structures larger than this size are incompatible with the cosmological principle according to all estimates

BOSS Great Wall (BGW) (2016)	1,000,000,000	Structure consisting of 4 superclusters of galaxies. The mass and volume exceeds the amount of Sloan Great Wall.

Perseus–Pegasus Filament (1985)	1,000,000,000	A galaxy filament Contains Perseus-Pisces Supercluster

Pisces-Cetus Supercluster Complex (1987)	1,000,000,000	Contains the Milky Way, and is the first galaxy filament to be discovered. (The first LQG was found earlier in 1982.) A new report in 2014 confirms the Milky Way as a member of Laniakea Supercluster.

Caelum Supercluster	910,000,000	Caelum Supercluster is a collection of over 550,000 galaxies. It is the largest of all galaxy supercluster.

Ophiuchus Supercluster	858,000,000

Draco Supercluster	808,000,000

CfA2 Great Wall (1989)	750,000,000	Also known as the Coma Wall

Saraswati Supercluster	652,000,000	Saraswati Supercluster consists of 43 massive galaxy clusters, which include Abell 2361 and ZWCl 2341.1+0000.

Boötis Supercluster	620,000,000

Horologium Supercluster (2005)	550,000,000	Also known as Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster.

Laniakea Supercluster (2014)	520,000,000	Galaxy supercluster in which the Earth is located

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 11	500,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

Hyperion proto-supercluster (2018)	489,000,000	the largest and earliest known proto– supercluster

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 12	480,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

Newman LQG (U1.54)	450,000,000

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 5	430,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

Tesch–Engels LQG	420,000,000

The Great Attractor	400,000,000

Shapley Supercluster	400,000,000	First identified by Harlow Shapley as a cloud of galaxies in 1930, it was not identified as a structure until 1989.

Komberg–Kravstov–Lukash LQG 3	390,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

U1.90	380,000,000

Lynx–Ursa Major Filament (LUM Filament)	370,000,000

Sculptor Wall	370,000,000	Also known as Southern Great Wall

Pisces-Cetus Supercluster	350,000,000

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 2	350,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

z=2.38 filament around protocluster ClG J2143-4423	330,000,000

Webster LQG	320,000,000	First LQG (Large Quasar Group) discovered

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 8	310,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 1	280,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 6	260,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 7	250,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

King LQG	235,000,000	Discovered by George King

SCL @ 1338+27	228,314,341	One of most distant known superclusters.

Komberg–Kravtsov–Lukash LQG 9	200,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

SSA22 Protocluster	200,000,000	Giant collection of Lyman-alpha blobs

Ursa Major Supercluster	200,000,000

Komberg-Kravtsov-Lukash LQG 10	180,000,000	Discovered by Boris V. Komberg, Andrey V. Kravstov and Vladimir N. Lukash

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The Caelum Supercluster spans 910 million light-years and is the largest galaxy supercluster.

final_sentence: The Caelum Supercluster spans 910 million light-years and is the largest galaxy supercluster.