South Pole Wall

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The South Pole Wall is a massive, recently discovered cosmic structure composed of thousands of galaxies forming part of the large-scale filamentary web of the universe in the direction of the Earth's south celestial pole.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cosmic wall
galactic filament
large-scale structure of the universe
belongsToCategory large-scale cosmic walls
comparedWith Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall
Sloan Great Wall
composedOf galaxies
galaxy clusters
contains numerous galaxy clusters
thousands of galaxies
coordinateReference south galactic cap
cosmologicalContext Lambda-CDM model
cosmologicalScale hundreds of megaparsecs
discoveredBy Daniel Pomarède
R. Brent Tully
linked to: Brent Tully

cosmography research team
linked to: COSMOS field
discoveryMethod cosmography of the local universe
galaxy redshift surveys
discoveryYear 2020
distanceFromEarth approximately 500 million light-years
evidenceFor inhomogeneous matter distribution on large scales
extendsOver more than 1.4 billion light-years
hasProperty aligned roughly with lines of sight toward the south celestial pole
gravitationally significant overdensity
hidden partly behind the Milky Way’s zone of avoidance
one of the largest known contiguous structures near the Milky Way
traced by galaxy density field
influences peculiar velocities of nearby galaxies
locatedInDirectionOf south celestial pole
mappedBy three-dimensional galaxy distribution reconstructions
name South Pole Wall
observedUsing Cosmicflows velocity data
redshift-distance catalogs
partOf cosmic web
large-scale structure of the cosmos
local universe
redshiftRange low redshift
relatedTo Great Attractor
Laniakea Supercluster
Shapley Supercluster
reportedIn The Astrophysical Journal
scaleType supercluster-scale structure
shape filamentary
structureType wall-like overdensity

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Daniel Pomarède knownFor South Pole Wall
South Pole Wall name South Pole Wall