{"id":197076,"date":"2024-10-05T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/shapley-supercluster-discovery-shatters-previous-cosmic-boundaries"},"modified":"2024-10-05T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T17:17:34","slug":"shapley-supercluster-discovery-shatters-previous-cosmic-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/shapley-supercluster-discovery-shatters-previous-cosmic-boundaries","title":{"rendered":"Shapley Supercluster Discovery Shatters Previous Cosmic Boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/shapley-supercluster-discovery-shatters-previous-cosmic-boundaries3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Researchers at the University of Hawai\u02bbi have revealed that our galaxy, part of the Lani\u0101kea supercluster, might actually reside within a significantly larger cosmic structure, potentially centered around the massive Shapley concentration.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>This discovery, emerging from the study of 56,000 galaxies, suggests that our cosmic neighborhood could be 10 times larger than previously estimated, challenging existing models of the universe\u2019s structure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>An international research team guided by astronomers at the University of Hawai\u02bbi Institute for Astronomy is challenging our understanding of the universe with groundbreaking findings that suggest our cosmic neighborhood may be far larger than previously thought. The Cosmicflows team has been studying the trajectories of 56,000 galaxies, revealing a potential shift in the scale of our galactic basin of attraction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Hawai\u02bbi have revealed that our galaxy, part of the Lani\u0101kea supercluster, might actually reside within a significantly larger cosmic structure, potentially centered around the massive Shapley concentration. This discovery, emerging from the study of 56,000 galaxies, suggests that our cosmic neighborhood could be 10 times larger than previously estimated, challenging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197076","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}