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Hyperion proto-supercluster

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Hyperion proto-supercluster
Picture: ESO/L. Calçada & Olga Cucciati et al., CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

About the Hyperion proto-supercluster

The light we see from it set out 11.1 billion years ago, when the universe was 2.67 billion years old (redshift 2.45).

The map lists it as a supercluster and shows it at the scale of the large-scale universe, drawn on the supergalactic plane.

Key numbers

Distance (comoving, today)19.3 billion light-years (5,907 Mpc)
Redshift z2.45
Light travel time11.1 billion years
Universe's age when this light left2.67 billion years
Distance methodredshift (Planck 2018 cosmology)
Supergalactic coordinatesSGL 99.3°, SGB -40.8°
On the mapThe dashed circle marks its approximate size around its centre. Structures this large have no sharp edge, and the circle is not drawn to an exact shape.
Sizeabout 489 million light-years across

Where it is

Its place in the universe, from the inside out: Observable universe.

Zoom out to see it in context: Observable universe, a view about 100 billion light-years across.

From Wikipedia

The Hyperion proto-supercluster is the largest and earliest known proto-supercluster, 5,000 times the mass of the Milky Way and seen at 20% of the current age of the universe. It was discovered in 2018 by analysing the redshifts of 10,000 objects observed with the Very Large Telescope in Chile.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Hyperion proto-supercluster, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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