Huge Megastructure We Live In Revealed in a New Map of the Universe

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery that Milky Way and the Laniakea supercluster are moving inside something larger
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0:00 Huge structure we're part of
0:39 Discovery of Laniakea in 2014
2:20 New search for a bigger cluster
3:20 New study and new discoveries of the enormous web
4:40 Moving into a basin of attraction but what's there?
6:10 Shapley supercluster and its attractor
7:20 Additional discoveries including the Sloan Great Wall
8:40 Conclusions and implications
#laniakea #milkyway #shapley

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[mnvore]

Trying to imagine the jaw-dropping shock of an astronomer from the 1930s, back when they were just confirming that Andromeda is, in fact, a whole other galaxy, if you told them about 80 or so galaxies being called "the local group" and tried to explain clusters of *hundreds of thousands* of galaxies all moving together. Like, they'd get it, but they wouldn't be okay for a couple days.

[mariavictor]

It’s mind boggling that we spend our time hating and destroying each other, when these mysteries are there to be thought about and discovered.What a monumental waste of wonderful person potential.💙

[mudhutproductions]

To be alive in this time of discovery and understanding is nothing short of epic.

[HermitCrone]

It’s a brain, the brain of the Universe. Amazing!
Thank you, Anton!

[RobertBrown-ir]

At 76 I am thankful to learn about these discoveries -- thanks again Anton

[pizzafrenzyman]

Fantastic. This will help me greatly in my travels. Reliable maps for space travel are so difficult to find.

[SaltyBagfries]

It's always amazing to me when models of very large things look like things that are inside our bodies. Images in the enormous web section of this video look like our nervous system.

[RobertCampsall]

It's also interesting to realize that the structures we're seeing is actually how they were in the past. For example, the "Sloan Great Wall" we see is actually one billion years out of date. Cosmology is a fascinating field of study, but much of it is a little counter-intuitive because realizing that what we see is an ever older and more out of date "map" that gets more and more out of date the farther away from us we are looking at.

[JonathonPawelko]

As Douglas Adams put it, "Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is"

[princessmaly]

"There's probably nothing there."

Yeah that's what Big Azathoth wants you to think!

[SirCharles]

All that . . . just 2% of the known universe! Wow!! Humbling.

[earlofnacho]

I wonder if there are larger systems/structures - impossible for us to detect at the moment - made up of these super clusters. And then how far does it go? What if these systems exist in infinitude and what we know as the “big bang” is simply what formed our mega cluster (or whatever it would be called)? What if it’s a cycle in which all systems are eventually sucked into one point only to form a big bang, outward expansion, and subsequent rebound to one point for another bang?

It’s truly incredible that we’re able to learn about things on such inconceivable scales of time and space. Here I am sat at a gas station all mind boggled. From the tiniest quantum particles to the largest cluster of super clusters and here we are somewhere in-between. It’s… something beyond amazing. Thanks for sharing, Anton!

[tomdalsin]

Most people can't properly picture one kilometer of land. At best they can fudge it, estimate it innaccurately, and completely drop 99% of the details in that kilometer and create an oversimplified vague model which doesn't really represent 1 km.
That's 1 km.
Now do thousands of those for a nation. Then do thousands of those thousands for our planet.
The Human mind is so poorly equipped to comprehend distances with any precision or accuracy.
I'm so glad we can build models instead, to use as maps and concepts.
The scales depicted in this video are truly beyond mortal comprehension.
Very impressive, very cool.

[dhatchbernier]

The scale of the universe is mind-blowing.

[thankyouforinfo]

as you watch anton you start to really spiritually reflect on your life

[dvcsrv_core]

"It just keeps going." The cosmos wrapped up in a single phrase.

[joejoe-lbbw]

As a child who loved reading comics, I fantasized that we were just part of some cosmic being; the earth just a cell in it. As an adult that fantasy is still present, just even bigger; the cosmic web are neurons in a cosmic brain. Yea, silly. Great videos Anton!

[robotaholic]

30 minutes ago I saw this story in the news. And I thought I hope Anton covers it and boom here it is.

[MyraSeavy]

WoW! This one was Awesome! I love the maps and pics that give us a clue to what you are talking about! Thanks Anton! Great as usual!! 😊🎉❤

[laelfoo]

A while ago, I read everything related to great attractors and great walls on Wikipedia including similar hyphens and I figured out that everything was moving towards Shapley including the great attractor, I was able to answer before you answered. Feels good, like reading your textbook before class hahaha