Cosmic structures · Cosmic void
Boötes Void
700 million light-years · Light crosses it in 410 million years
- Across
- 404.0 million light-years
- Vs Earth
- 4,040× Milky Way
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In the app, Boötes Void is part of the Beyond pack.
About
The Boötes Void is an enormous, nearly empty bubble in space about 400 million light-years across. A region that size would normally hold about 2,000 galaxies; only about 60 have been found in it.
A near-empty bubble 400 million light-years wide with only about 60 galaxies.
At a glance
| Distance | 700 million light-years |
|---|---|
| Size | About 400 million light-years |
| Galaxies | About 60 |
| Discovered | 1981, Robert Kirshner |
Did you know
- If the Milky Way were in its centre, we would not have known other galaxies existed until the 1960s.
- It is sometimes called the Great Nothing.
- Voids like it fill most of the volume of the universe; galaxies gather on their walls.
Simulations
- The Big Bang — How the universe grew from a hot, dense beginning into a web of galaxies, over 13.8 billion years