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The Virgo Supercluster is one of about 10 million superclusters in the observable universe and is in the Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex, a galaxy filament. A 2014 study indicates that the Local Supercluster is only a part of an even greater supercluster, Laniakea , a larger group centered on the Great Attractor , [ 2 ] thus subsuming the ...
Local Supercluster, Laniakea, Laniakea Supercluster, Laniakea Complex The Laniakea Supercluster ( / ˌ l ɑː n i . ə ˈ k eɪ . ə / ; Hawaiian for "open skies" or "immense heaven") [ 2 ] or the Local Supercluster ( LSC or LS ) is the galaxy supercluster that is home to the Milky Way and approximately 100,000 other nearby galaxies.
The Saraswati Supercluster consists of 43 massive galaxy clusters, which include Abell 2361 and ZWCl 2341.1+0000. Boötes Supercluster: 620,000,000: Horologium-Reticulum Supercluster (2005) 550,000,000: Also known as the Horologium Supercluster. Laniakea Supercluster (2014) 520,000,000: Galaxy supercluster in which Earth is located.
The proposed Laniakea Supercluster is defined as the Great Attractor's basin. It covers approximately four main galaxy superclusters, including superclusters of Virgo and Hydra–Centaurus, and spans across 500 million light years. Because it is not dense enough to be gravitationally bound, it should be dispersing as the universe expands, but ...
Laniakea Supercluster: z = 0.000; Length = 153 Mpc (500 million light-years) The Laniakea Supercluster is the supercluster that contains the Virgo Cluster, Local Group, and by extension on the latter, our galaxy; the Milky Way. [2] Virgo Supercluster: z= 0.000; Length = 33 Mpc (110 million light-years) It contains the Local Group with our ...
The Sculptor region, including the Sculptor Supercluster and Hercules Supercluster; The Laniakea Supercluster, which contains our Virgo Supercluster (Local Supercluster) as well as the Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster. [4] With its mass of 10 15 M ☉, our Virgo Supercluster accounts only for 0.1 percent of the total mass of the complex.
The Virgo Cluster is a cluster of galaxies whose center is 53.8 ± 0.3 Mly (16.5 ± 0.1 Mpc) [2] away in the constellation Virgo.Comprising approximately 1,300 (and possibly up to 2,000) member galaxies, [3] the cluster forms the heart of the larger Virgo Supercluster, of which the Local Group (containing the Milky Way galaxy) is a member.
The Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster (SCl 128), [3] or the Hydra and Centaurus Superclusters, [1] was a previously defined supercluster in two parts, which prior to the identification of Laniakea Supercluster in 2014 is the closest neighbour of the former Virgo Supercluster.