South Pole Wall
Muro del Polo Sur
- Date
- 2020 · confidence high
- Place
- Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- Credited to
- R. Brent Tully
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A massive large-scale cosmic structure formed by a filament of galaxies extending at least 1.37 billion light-years, near the celestial south pole; identified by an international team led by R. Brent Tully in 2020 as one of the largest contiguous features of the local universe.
What it led to
- Expansion of the map of large-scale structure in the local universe
- Comparison with other massive structures such as the Sloan Great Wall
- Refinement of cosmological models of matter distribution