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KBC Hole: We Might Be Living Inside A 2 Billion Light-Year Void

KBC Hole: We Might Be Living Inside A 2 Billion Light-Year Void

In 1981, while conducting a redshift survey of the distribution of galaxies, astronomers spotted something (or nothing) that they weren’t expecting. “[W]e discovered that the redshift distributions in each of the three northern fields showed an identical 6,000 [kilometers per second] gap. Because these fields were separated by angles of ~35°, this suggested the existence of a large void in …

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