Map of the Universe
Giants and record holders
A guided tour in 8 stops
1. Boötes Void
The Boötes Void is one of the largest known empty regions, roughly 300 million light-years across.
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2. Phoenix Cluster
The Phoenix Cluster has one of the highest star-formation rates measured in a cluster's central galaxy.
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3. IC 1101
IC 1101 is one of the largest galaxies known, a giant elliptical at the centre of the cluster Abell 2029.
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4. TON 618
TON 618 is a quasar powered by one of the most massive black holes measured, tens of billions of solar masses.
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5. El Gordo
El Gordo is a pair of colliding galaxy clusters, among the most massive known at its distance.
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6. Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall
The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall is a proposed structure billions of light-years long, traced by gamma-ray bursts. Whether it is real is still debated.
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7. Earendel
Earendel is one of the most distant single stars ever detected, magnified by a foreground galaxy cluster's gravity.
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8. MoM-z14
MoM-z14 is among the most distant galaxies confirmed by spectroscopy, seen as it was about 280 million years after the Big Bang.
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