{"id":109757,"date":"2020-07-10T08:43:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronomers-discover-south-pole-wall-a-gigantic-structure-stretching-1-4-billion-light-years-across"},"modified":"2020-07-10T08:43:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:43:29","slug":"astronomers-discover-south-pole-wall-a-gigantic-structure-stretching-1-4-billion-light-years-across","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/astronomers-discover-south-pole-wall-a-gigantic-structure-stretching-1-4-billion-light-years-across","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover South Pole Wall, a gigantic structure stretching 1.4 billion light-years across"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-south-pole-wall-a-gigantic-structure-stretching-1-4-billion-light-years-across2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Knowing how the universe looks on such large scales helps confirm our current cosmological models, Neta Bahcall, an astrophysicist at Princeton University in New Jersey who was not involved in the work, told Live Science. But determining where exactly these enormous, crisscrossing structures begin and end is tricky, she added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you look at the network of filaments and voids, it becomes a semantic question of what\u2019s connected,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>In their paper, the team acknowledges that they may not have plotted yet the entirety of the vast South Pole Wall. \u201cWe will not be certain of its full extent, nor whether it is unusual, until we map the universe on a significantly grander scale,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing how the universe looks on such large scales helps confirm our current cosmological models, Neta Bahcall, an astrophysicist at Princeton University in New Jersey who was not involved in the work, told Live Science. But determining where exactly these enormous, crisscrossing structures begin and end is tricky, she added. \u201cWhen you look at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}