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Here's How That Emptiness Will Eventually Gobble Up All of Space. The emptiness between stars and galaxies makes up 80 percent of the volume of the known universe. Dark energy is expanding these voids rapidly.
Astronomers have previously noticed that the Milky Way sits in a large, flat array of galaxies called the Local Sheet, which bounds the Local Void. The Local Void extends approximately 60 megaparsecs (200 Mly), beginning at the edge of the Local Group.
Summary. Most galaxies live in clusters, walls and filaments that make up the large scale structure of matter, while 80% of the universe's volume is occupied by voids. Voids do contain some galaxies but they are difficult to identify hiding among the foreground and background galaxies that live in matter-dense regions.
That previous study showed that Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of a so-called cosmic void.
At nearly 330 million light-years in diameter (approximately 0.27% of the diameter of the observable universe), or nearly 236,000 Mpc3 in volume, the Boötes Void is one of the largest known voids in the Universe, and is referred to as a supervoid.
We are not living in a galactic void, but rather along a filament/surface of clusters running roughly between the Perseus supercluster and the Virgo/Laniakea supercluster.
If the universe is perfectly geometrically flat, then it can be infinite. If it's curved, like Earth's surface, then it has finite volume. Current observations and measurements of the curvature of the universe indicate that it is almost perfectly flat.
The trite answer is that both space and time were created at the big bang about 14 billion years ago, so there is nothing beyond the universe. However, much of the universe exists beyond the observable universe, which is maybe about 90 billion light years across.
Voids have typical sizes of hundreds of millions of light years and occupy about 90% of known space. Although their name suggests that voids are completely empty of galaxies, this is not actually true.
So, to leave our Galaxy, we would have to travel about 500 light-years vertically, or about 25,000 light-years away from the galactic centre. We'd need to go much further to escape the 'halo' of diffuse gas, old stars and globular clusters that surrounds the Milky Way's stellar disk.
The technology required to travel between galaxies is far beyond humanity's present capabilities, and currently only the subject of speculation, hypothesis, and science fiction. However, theoretically speaking, there is nothing to conclusively indicate that intergalactic travel is impossible.
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Not at all. Voids are large-scale underdense regions, but they aren't completely devoid of matter at all. While large galaxies within them may be rare, they do exist. Even in the deepest, sparsest cosmic void we've ever found, there is still a large galaxy sitting at the center.
The void contains no space, no time, no mass, and no charge. It contains only photons of stable energy in different quantum levels “n”. Things that are dependent on space, time, mass, and charge such as Velocity, KE, PE, Temperature, and charged particles cannot exist within the quantum of the void.
The void can never be filled, so the torment we endure is a pointless waste of energy. And yet it's not. Change is the only constant, good and bad things, as we refer them to be, will come and go. And in all of that, we must somehow learn how to process it all and find equilibrium.
Many religious persons, including many scientists, hold that God created the universe and the various processes driving physical and biological evolution and that these processes then resulted in the creation of galaxies, our solar system, and life on Earth.
As a universe, a vast collection of animate and inanimate objects, time is infinite. Even if there was a beginning, and there might be a big bang end, it won't really be an end. The energy left behind will become something else; the end will be a beginning.
Even though certain features of the universe seem to require the existence of a multiverse, nothing has been directly observed that suggests it actually exists. So far, the evidence supporting the idea of a multiverse is purely theoretical, and in some cases, philosophical.
There's a limit to how much of the universe we can see. The observable universe is finite in that it hasn't existed forever. It extends 46 billion light years in every direction from us.
No, they don't believe there's an end to space. However, we can only see a certain volume of all that's out there. Since the universe is 13.8 billion years old, light from a galaxy more than 13.8 billion light-years away hasn't had time to reach us yet, so we have no way of knowing such a galaxy exists.
Radio astronomers have found the biggest hole ever seen in the universe. The void, which is nearly a billion light years across, is empty of both normal matter and dark matter. The finding challenges theories of large-scale structure formation in the universe.
According to the Einstein-Straus model, after the formation of the black hole the matter around it expands in a comoving way leading to the formation of an empty region between it and the rest of the universe. As the central black hole cannot be seen, the whole region appears as a void to an external observer.
We live in the Milky Way Galaxy and our nearest galactic neighbor is the Andromeda Galaxy. Although men have never commenced a journey to a different galaxy, this hypothetical journey between galaxies is called Intergalactic travel. Even our galactic neighbor stands at millions of light years away.
The term dark matter was coined in 1933 by Fritz Zwicky of the California Institute of Technology to describe the unseen matter that must dominate one feature of the universe—the Coma Galaxy Cluster.