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Nobody talks about the Boötes Void and I genuinely don't understand why

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Kai OduyaPosted Mar 30

The Boötes Void. 330 million light-years across. Almost completely empty. That should be front page news every single day.

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LH

The standard explanation is that it's just a statistical fluctuation in large-scale structure, the universe is lumpy and sometimes you get big empty patches. But 330 million light years is very large for a fluctuation. The expected size from lambda-CDM models is smaller. That gap deserves more attention.

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BR

The KBC void argument is worth including in any review here too - some researchers think we might actually be inside a supervoid ourselves, which would affect our Hubble constant measurements. It's all connected.

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Kai OduyaOPApr 5

"the gap deserves more attention" is like the most understated thing you could say about a 330 million light year hole in the universe

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BR

I talk about it constantly and nobody in my life is willing to engage. Thank you for this.

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