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The Boötes Void: a 300-million-light-year cosmic emptiness
Original: 🔭 The Boötes Void is one of the largest known cosmic voids, spanning roughly 300 million light-years. It is not truly em
Attention is turning again to the Boötes Void, one of the largest known voids in the universe, stretching roughly 300 million light-years across. The region, located in the constellation Boötes, is not completely empty: a handful of faint galaxies persist within this low-density zone of the cosmic web. Astronomers consider such voids natural features of the large-scale structure of the universe, where matter is concentrated in filaments surrounding vast underdense regions.
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