Scientists Investigate Mysterious Space Void. WHAT IS IT?

Scientists investigate inside of mysterious space void. WHAT IS IT?

With an abundance of dying stars, icy worlds, rogue comets, black holes and even cannibal galaxies — space can be a dangerous place.

But one particular area of space, known as the “Boötes void”, perhaps takes the title for officially being one of the most mysterious places in outer space.
The massive expanse of emptiness is nearly 300 million light years wide and unlike any other observed in the universe.

Welcome to Factnomenal and for today’s video we take a journey to yet another one of space's many mysteries that science just can’t seem to explain— The Bootes Void.

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[Factnomenal]

🌌😱 Name one thing you wouldn't want to encounter in the vast expanse of space.

[CubOfJudahsLion]

And sure enough, there goes a picture of Barnard 68 (a dark molecular cloud), which tends to show up in discussions about cosmic voids.

[cjyung]

Sure space is deadly, but I would leave earth with the aliens in a heartbeat. And I don't want to hear the technicalities, i know it's unlikely. But I can hope.

[UziRyder]

Often they describe the expanding universe as being like a round balloon being blown up. Imagine living on a little particle somewhere inside that balloon that someone is blowing up and trying to figure out what's going on? You'd see most everything moving away from you and you might assume that if you played that backward you'd end up with a single tiny particle. You might call it a singularity because you have no idea what that is, but you assume it exploded and that would account well for what you see. But, you're math keeps failing when you get close to the singularity? Why? Well, because there never was a singularity and there was no big bang. The universe is a membrane and matter is being introduced from somewhere outside the membrane. See if you can punch a hole in the cosmic balloon. Don't try cosmic background radiation because you can't prove whether it came from a singularity or is introduced from outside.

[CreativeCulture]

You guys realize this dude is literally talking about nothing.

[michaelccopelandsr]

I've been on YouTube forever. In all these years I've subscribed to only 5 channels. Factnomenal is one. I don't know how to give Factnomenal a better compliment. You ROCK!

[tedskladanoski]

Maybe an advanced civilization used something more advanced than a dyson sphere and used all of he energy from every star, planet, comet, etc. from this region leaving it empty because there was no waste leftover and they cleaned up when they were finished.

[lokifishmarz]

5:58 That's NOT the Bootes Void.
That's Barnard 68, one of a rather large number of nebula that block light of the stars and galaxies behind it in the visible spectrum. Viewed in IR, that void essentially disappears (which looks like what you show at 6:00).

[DarkPegasus]

Can you see further than the voids in question? If so, it begs a serious question: Why can't you see light from those galaxies passing through the voids? Yes, you covered there being dim galaxies within the void, but what about the bright galaxies further away on the other side? Might I suggest a theory: Those voids are not as empty as we assume. What if they are surrounded in something like dark matter that bends light around the voids so much that all you see is a void in the middle? A chunk of dark matter will create a lensing effect of the light being bent. However, what would an orbiting field of dark matter do to the light passing through if the lensed light gets lensed again and again and again? Personally, I imagine that the light trying to pass through will just get scattered until all you see is a blob of "nothing."

[KaosRunes]

I often wonder if they're gateways to other universes in the multiverse. I also sometimes think they are just big dark clouds obscuring the stars behind them.

[biggusdickus]

Just imagine the amount of life that’s out there,
Some planets with just bacterial life, some with intelligent life like us wondering if there alone in the universe and some with super intelligent life that know the answers to all these questions.

[johnmellan]

*Narrator* ''When you hear the word void''
*Me* ''I hear Faceless''

[heathmcrigsby]

It always bothered me that voids are considered "structures"

[jonq]

It doesn't make sense that we can even observe the void, because if it truly is a void that means there's nothing there to obstruct our view. For matters of discussion, if the void is spherical in shape we should still be able to see through it and observe galaxies on the other side... the universe is huge, surely they're more behind the void. It's weird.

[countfrankfritter]

I am just a drooling and dribbling 🤤Thank you so much for the video👍

[hansOrf]

Hearing these gargantuan numbers reiterates how meaningless we as earthlings are, not as important as we may seem to think and definitely clueless as far as the universe and our existance goes.

[cinemartin]

Space is such an amazing thing that even when we literally talk about "emptiness" it still comes out interesting. In general, it is quite difficult to imagine the scale of such huge areas of emptiness, but whatever it is, even what one can imagine is terrifying. And speaking of the big bang, I've always considered it a far-fetched theory in order to somehow outline the beginning of time. It looks extremely strange and when you talk about it, a lot of questions arise and one of them is "how can anyone believe in this at all ?" So, the supervoids are just another confirmation that the big bang is nonsense.

[nathanielanderson]

We have no way of testing the accuracy of the red shift measurements over such vast distances. This means that we don't actually know if our universe is expanding in the way that has been concluded so recklessly.

[XBANGARANGX]

What if if the void is actually remnants of an explosion so massive it completely pushed or obliterated everything in it's entirety

[davidhall]

Across from my place is an empty lot. To the right, they've put up a condo and to the left, a new burger joint has been built. But calling the empty lot a third 'structure' is a bit odd. And going on about galaxies and filaments and such vast concepts, do you really need to explain to listeners halfway through, what a light-year is?