Boötes Void One Of The Largest Voids In The Universe

Boötes void is one of the largest known voids in the Universe. This massive empty spherical region in space is about 330 million light-years in diameter. The Universe is full of voids! Areas where very few things exist. Boötes void or the Great Nothing is such a place.

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Ardit Bicaj

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Russell Archey

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F. Governato and T. Quinn (Univ. of Washington), A. Brooks (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison), and J. Wadsley (McMaster Univ.)
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications

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[ComputerLearning]

I remember there was a great episode of Star Trek Voyager where they had to travel through a void that was completely barren of planets, stars and other matter on their long journey back to earth from the delta quadrant, and I remember the way it looked on the show and how depressed the crew got because, other than the ship itself, there was absolutely nothing in view. When they looked out the windows all they saw was complete darkness and I remember it took a mental toll on the crew and MONTHS later when they finally crossed through it they were so happy to be able to see normal space again and it really made you think about what it would be like if we actually had the ability to travel the stars like that and had to cross such a void in space. Even in the Star Trek universe it was very unnerving to have to travel through that, and that was but a tiny fraction of the size of the Boötes Void.

[jeddyhi]

Scientists in a galaxy in the Bootes Void think they are alone in the universe.

[tylersmith]

The saddest thing I can think of is our inability to ever know more about these planets and places.

[unifiedcodetheory]

"Did you know the universe is filled with voids?"
Well... Yes... That's why they call it "space"

[ravenvalt]

so Boötes Void is where all my lost stuff has been going to

[austrolonium]

If we learned this in school, I would feel a lot better about waking up every morning.

[Ivbo]

Imagine being in that one galaxy inside the void…the epitome of loneliness.

[thanhavictus]

When you talk about light years in big terms, it is always a good idea to repeat the size of our Galaxy in light years

[toast_bath]

the camera man did a great job of filming everything. Give him a raise

[tommybro]

When you look at the night sky everything looks the same

Me: *Lives in air pollution*
Edit: Also lives in air and light pollution

[iainballas]

Extroverts: "That sounds like hell."
Introverts: "It's free real estate!"

[gr]

The largest void in the universe is my bank account.

[Shadow_Wolf]

Looking at the darkness beyond the boarders of our galaxy, even if backlit by other galaxies, still sends a down my spine. It's exciting, and scary, at the same time. Sucks that I won't be able to explore it in my lifetime.

[skyc-]

Theoretically, that void might have changed and not be as big anymore or have more objects in it given that due to the distance we essentially see a the void as it was hundreds of million of years ago

[Doraphobic]

Not to sound depressing but I can't wait to shed this body and roam the eternal universe once I'm dead.
SO MUCH TO SEE!

[panchothemonkey]

Let's see, 335 million years wide traveling at light speed. That's one hell of a void.

[BunkerWise]

It's still not as big as the void in my heart 😔

[AbLaV]

I think a lot of people feel so small and meaningless when space is this big and we are such a small part of it, but i feel really excited to be able to know what we do about our known universe. Like, not that long ago, we didn't even know the sun was a star that we rotated around. We didn't know about other planets at all. But we know a lot about that stuff now, visit space regularly, have been on the moon as a species. It's pretty cool

[AlexorPwnsAll]

I wouldn’t expect anyone to know what I’m talking about when I say this, but someone should recommend this video to Ironmouse in one of her endurance streams. Really ratchet up the existential dread on this one.