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What is the largest structure discovered so far in the known universe?

The largest known structure in the Universe is called the ‘Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall‘, discovered in November 2013. This object is a galactic filament, a vast group of galaxies bound together by gravity, about 10 billion light-years away.

The Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall or simply the Great Wallis the largest known structure in the observable universe, measuring approximately 10 billion light-years in length (the observable universe is about 93 billion light-years in diameter).

This massive superstructure is a region of the sky seen in the data set mapping of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that has been found to have an unusually higher concentration of similarly distanced GRBs than the expected average distribution.

It was discovered in early November 2013 by a team of American and Hungarian astronomers led by István Horváth, Jon Hakkila and Zsolt Bagoly while analyzing data from the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, together with other data from ground-based telescopes.

It is the largest known formation in the universe, exceeding the size of the prior Huge-LQG by about two times.

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