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KBC Void
- jdnier 5y agoMentioned his one of several fascinating comments in a recent HN post (source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28574406 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28574406). > It's been known since the 1990s (https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9503044 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9503044 ) that cosmic voids & supervoids aren't strictly speaking empty at the largest scales. More recently sky surveys have found evidence that we are probably in a supervoid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBC_Void https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KBC_Void