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March 13, 2016

The BOSS Wall

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As if staring up at the night sky didn’t make us feel small already, astronomers have recently announced the discovery of the BOSS Great Wall,
a group of superclusters that span roughly 1 billion light-years across and represents the largest structure ever found in space. The BOSS Great Wall, which sounds aptly named for its size but actually stands for the Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey, is a string of superclusters connected by gases lying roughly 4.5 to 6.5 billion light-years away from Earth. Thanks to gravity, these superclusters stay connected and swirl together through the void of space. Astronomers discover the biggest object in the Universe so far - the BOSS Great Wall

Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 13, 2016 6:24 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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re: BOSS Great Wall

Having been an Amateur Astronomer since 1957, I speak with the learned disappointment that like Physics Astronomy has become wedded to nonsense. Astronomy bases its views on the weak force of GRAVITY ignoring any electrical input and that RED SHIFT is only a distance marker. I don't trust the pronouncements given that.

Dan Kurt

Posted by: Dan Kurt [TypeKey Profile Page] at March 14, 2016 11:05 AM

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