The Terrifying Truth About Empty Space Between Galaxies
Between the galaxies, there are holes. Not gaps. Holes. Some stretch over a billion light-years across, containing almost nothing. No stars. No gas. No light. We call them voids, and they make up most of the universe you live in.
Tonight, you'll travel to a bubble of nothing that may be swallowing our galaxy, a void so cold it broke physics, and a region where time itself seems to stretch.
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Sources: NASA – Cosmic Microwave Background and Cold Spot https://science.nasa.gov/
European Space Agency – Planck Mission Results https://www.esa.int/
Sloan Digital Sky Survey https://www.sdss.org/
Hoffman et al. – The Dipole Repeller (Nature Astronomy, 2017) https://www.nature.com/
Keenan, Barger & Cowie – Local Void Density Measurements https://iopscience.iop.org/
Kirshner et al. – Discovery of the Boötes Void https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/
Szapudi & Kovacs – Eridanus Supervoid https://academic.oup.com/mnras
Tully et al. – Local Void Mapping https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/
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