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fromBig Think
1 week ago

The widely reported "hole in the Universe" is a lie

There is no hole in the Universe; the image is a cloud of light-blocking neutral gas, not an empty void.
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Our Entire Galaxy Appears to Be Embedded in a Colossal Sheet of Dark Matter

The Milky Way - and in fact our entire galactic neighborhood known as the Local Group - appear to be lodged in a vast, extended "sheet" of dark matter flanked on each side by cosmic voids, new research suggests. The findings, described in a new study published in Nature Astronomy, could help explain the puzzling motion exhibited by our nearby galaxies, which seems to defy the gravitational influence of neighboring realms.
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fromFuturism
3 months ago

NASA Says It's Just Gonna Stare Into Cosmic Voids for a While

Cosmic voids, vast regions nearly empty of galaxies, could reveal properties of dark matter and dark energy via surveys by Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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