Voids

Near Boötes Void

One of the 25 nearest voids

From the Sun

68.3 million light-years

Near Boötes VoidOpen in 3D

What it is

A region with no bright galaxies, one of the 25 voids within 80 million light-years that Pustilnik et al. (2019) mapped over the whole sky, walled by galaxies brighter than absolute K magnitude −22. It is a cluster of overlapping empty spheres, drawn as the ellipsoid spanning its extent along the supergalactic axes.

In numbers

From the Sun
68.3 million ly
Across
about 81.6 million ly
Galaxies inside
49, mostly dwarfs
RA / Dec
229.5° / 27.0°

Voids