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There are some things in our universe so large that our minds just can't fully grasp their size.

One such discovery was just made. Known as the BOSS Great Wall, a team of scientists found a total of 830 galaxies that have been pulled into four superclusters by gravity, according to a study that will appearin the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. At 1 billion light years across, it's believed to be the largest structure ever found in the universe, the report added.

This discovery was made when a team of researchers at the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics looked for galaxy clusters between 4.5 and 6.4 billion light-years from Earth, New Scientist reported.

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“It was so much bigger than anything else in this volume,” study co-author Heidi Lietzen told New Scientist.

Prior to this discovery, the previous record for the largest known structure in the universe was the Sloan Great Wall, which was discovered in 2003, according to Discovery News. The BOSS Great Wall is at least two-thirds larger, Sky News said.

Some experts disagree, however, that the BOSS Great Wall should qualify for the new record.

“I don’t entirely understand why they are connecting all of these features together to call them a single structure,” Allison Coil of the University of California in San Diego told New Scientist. “There are clearly kinks and bends in this structure that don’t exist, for example, in the Sloan Great Wall.”

Regardless, the size of this structure is simply staggering– difficult to comprehend because the numbers are so big. In the Milky Way alone, there are at least 200 billion stars, many of which have a varying number of planets orbiting them, as Science Alert says. A single galaxy could possibly contain 1 trillion planets.

"Now, multiply that insane thought by 10,000 and you have the BOSS Great Wall," wrote Science Alert. "To our limited scope, it is effectively infinite."

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