Tag Archive for 'Laniakea'

This map shows the distribution of matter in the local Universe; it shows how matter flows, i.e. along which trajectories (thin lines) the galaxies move. Image credit: Valade et al., doi: 10.1038/s41550-024-02370-0.

New Map Reveals Impressive Megastructures in Local Universe

Sep 30, 2024 by News Staff

The newly-developed map of the local Universe is based on the motions of 56,000 galaxies, according to a team of astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute...

An artist’s impression of Ho’oleilana. Image credit: Frédéric Durillon.

Enormous ‘Bubble’ of Galaxies Discovered in Nearby Universe

Sep 7, 2023 by News Staff

Named Ho’oleilana, the newly-discovered ‘bubble’ of galaxies is around one billion light-years across and is centered 820 million light-years away...

A slice of the Laniakea Supercluster in the supergalactic equatorial plane. Our Milky Way Galaxy is located at the black dot at the origin of the supergalactic coordinates system. The colors represent density within this slice, with red for high densities and blue for voids - areas with relatively little matter; individual galaxies are shown as white dots; velocity flow streams within the region gravitationally dominated by Laniakea are shown in white, while dark blue flow lines are away from the Laniakea local basin of attraction; the orange contour encloses the outer limits of these streams, a diameter of about 522 million light-years. Image credit: DP / CEA / Saclay, France.

Laniakea: Milky Way Galaxy Found to Belong to Newly Identified Galactic Supercluster

Sep 4, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers headed by Dr R. Brent Tully of the University of Hawaii has determined that our Milky Way Galaxy lives in a newly...