Astronomers have found the largest structures ever discovered in the universe—filaments of galaxies 200 million light-years in length that date from just 2 billion years after the Big Bang.
SUPERSTRUCTURE. At least three long filaments of galaxies overlap in this illustration. Subaru
The filaments contain 30 giant pockets of gas, each of which may be as much as 10 times the mass of the Milky Way.
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