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    Post by Dragon Mon Sep 11, 2023 1:05 pm

    Astronomers have discovered the first "bubble of galaxies," an almost unimaginably huge cosmic structure thought to be a fossilized remnant from just after the Big Bang sitting in our galactic backyard.

    The bubble spans a billion light years, making it 10,000 times wider than the Milky Way galaxy.

    Yet this giant bubble, which cannot be seen by the naked eye, is a relatively close 820 million light years away from our home galaxy, in what astronomers call the nearby universe.


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    An artist's representation of the 'bubble of galaxies' Ho'oleilana, which spans a billion light years.

    Around 380,000 years after the Big Bang the process stopped as the universe cooled down, freezing the shape of the bubbles.

    The bubbles then grew larger as the universe expanded, similar to other fossilized remnants from the time after the Big Bang.

    The astronomers called their bubble Ho'oleilana—"sent murmurs of awakening"—taking the name from a Hawaiian creation chant.


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