![]() Map of voids and superclusters within 500 million light years from Milky Way. The Local Void in the yellow circle. | |
Object type | Void ![]() |
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Constellation | Hercules ![]() |
18h 38m [1] | |
Declination | +18.0°[1] |
In visual light (V) | |
Size | 60 Mpc (200 Mly)[2] |
The Local Void is a vast, empty region of space, lying adjacent to the Local Group.[3][4] Discovered by Brent Tully and Rick Fisher in 1987,[5] the Local Void is now known to be composed of three separate sectors, separated by bridges of "wispy filaments".[4] The precise extent of the void is unknown, but it is at least 45 Mpc (150 million light-years) across,[6] and possibly 150 to 300 Mpc.[7][8] The Local Void appears to have significantly fewer galaxies than expected from standard cosmology.[9]
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