BOSS...largest structure in the Universe so far.

[xelasnave]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...rse-180958378/

read all about it.

BOSS ???

Now thats familar.

[xelasnave]

https://universe-review.ca/F03-supercluster.htm


Also interesting

[PeterM]

Great article Alex and yes "us" (Backyard Observatory Supernova Search) have been confused with "them" (Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey). It has actually been a source of comic relief with some professionals when they told us of times when they thought "us wuz them".

There have been some been some unexpected benefits..

Stu Parker was invited to and attended a professional astronomy conference some years ago. He was the only amateur there....... and he fielded umpteen dozen and "which university are you from" questions that left us wondering.

Years later we were informed that some confusion actually got BOSS (us) on he invite list! But to the organisers credit they let it stand and Stu from BOSS (us) was well received. Probably because the poster paper presented noted "So, How Can We Help You" - just that alone got us several valuable contacts we still correspond with.

We eagerly await BOSS Guitar Pedals, BOSS clothing, BOSS Mufflers, BOSS Rifles and THE BOSS Bruce Springsteen to invite us to something. Free grog! Hell yeah we will be there!

Now that has gotta be a good read eh!

Best
Peter

[xelasnave]

Sad all these folk grasp at your coat tails.
Its ok only good can come from it.
These super structures fascinate me.
I find the manner in which spirals appear to line up "like beads on a string" most interesting.
I raised this some time ago but no one thought much of it but it seems so strange.

[Finite (John)]

What a couple of great articles (thanks Alex), reading them was a revelation to me in fact as this is the first I have heard of evidence of cohesive filaments running through the Universe, even binding galaxies as if they are beads on the string of a necklace. And it is the first I have heard of the great attractor. Mind blowing.

[janoskiss (Steve H)]

This one is supposed to be bigger still (4b lightyears):
Biggest Thing in the Universe - Sixty Symbols
... but I don't know if it's been confirmed or refuted since it was announced (3 years ago).

But one thing is for sure: the assumption of homogeneity on large scales is flawed. Perhaps not so for the very early universe but cosmological evolution from small fluctuations promotes a fractal geometry, where there is structure on all scales. Of course the subtle fractal structure was there in the first place in the fluctuations about the near-homogeneous mean. The CMB confirms this.