Why the Boötes Void Terrifies Astronomers

Although the void appears completely dark to our eyes, solving its mysteries could paradoxically shine a light on outstanding problems in our theories of the universe’s evolution, structure, and perhaps even the nature of the elusive dark matter itself. The vast nothingness may contain hidden insights into cosmic something we are yet to understand.

[cjh.]

The fact we’re in a void is probably the reason we get to exist in the first place and haven’t been filtered out by nature yet.

[SenhorTudo]

The void that scares ME the most is the one that exists between some peoples' ears.

[bigcity]

On the atomic level, everything, every piece of matter around you is mostly vast spaces of nothing. "Nothing" abounds....everywhere.

[terrainofthought]

That void is no mystery. Enterprise entered the void during one of its charting missions where Captain Jean Luc Piccard and his crew encountered "Nagilum". You guys really need to pay attention to the real physics.

[Marcel-yufw]

Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

[dukeon]

When you stare into the Boötes, the Boötes stares back at you.

[billthevillageidiot]

" Nom Nom Nom - well thats 62 megaparsecs of yummy celestial Boötes goodness ", said the cosmic entity as it munched away at the fabric of space and time !

[Fctn]

Nothing is more terrifying than a human mind.

[Letsberealish]

We really have no idea what it is we exist in.

[hassanalihusseini]

As an introvert I would like to live in Bootes void.

[erikdaigle]

Look at a satellite picture taken at dark of North America, we have big voids and small voids between our cities too.
And a web of roads to connect them.

[Moodymongul]

The Boötes Void is theorized to have formed from the merger of smaller voids, much like the way in which soap bubbles coalesce to form larger bubbles. This would account for the small number of galaxies that populate a roughly tube-shaped region running through the middle of the void.
Also, the picture you often see of the Boötes Void, is not a picture of the void. What is often shown is a very dark gas cloud, a nebula, covering the background stars known as Barnard 68. An actual image of bootes void is not directly observable.

[DavidSquire-tr]

Does it not make more sense that the void was generated because its matter, over the eons, migrated via gravity to the superclusters which surround it? I understand the desire to attribute it to the currently popular, highly theoretical "dark energy", but...

[Philomats]

Very nice presentation. Thanks for the dreamy material.

[ItzFieryFox]

Finally, someone makes a video longer than 5 minutes covering this extraordinary subject.
Thank you my brotha!

[Mrfeedlestickdotcom]

The void is the least of our fears the thing that we should fear is what is beyond the universe...

[plzgetsomesleep]

I'm watching this at 1am and the visuals feels like something I'd see in my dreams/when I'm about to fall asleep

[notjebbutstillakerbal]

The thumbnail depicts Barnard 68, a dark nebula. In reality you wouldn't even know that the Boötes void was even a void, as you'd still see the galaxies on the other side.

[sammysam]

The most terrifying and dangerous thing is an undisciplined mind

[BrokenCurtain]

Nothing terrifies anglophone astronomers more than an umlaut.