Astronomers have mapped the cosmic crisis in which our Milky Way Galaxy is a but a small component. The enormous structure, which the research team labels the Laniakea Supercluster, extends more than 500 million light-years and comprises 100,000 large galaxies. Researchers have been working out the gravitational structure in our universe for years. Based on Gerard de Vaucouleurs’s work in the 1950s, astrophysicists have thought of our galaxy as being on the edge of what is called [...]
