Southern Local Supervoid

Southern Local Supervoid

The Southern Local Supervoid is a tremendously large, nearly-empty region of space, devoid of galaxies, known as a void.

It lies next to the Local Supercluster, which contains our galaxy the Milky Way. Its center is 96 megaparsecs away and the void is 112 megaparsecs in diameter across its narrowest width. [Citation
last = Einasto
first = M
title = The Structure of the Universe Traced by Rich Clusters of Galaxies
journal = Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
volume = 269
url = http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994MNRAS.269..301E
date=1994-07-15 ]

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