Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

June 12, 2007 O. ur Milky Way galaxy lies at the edge of a huge void and is being repulsed by the void at high speed.. This observation provides astronomers with fundamental insights into how dark ...

The Milky Way galaxy is currently racing through space at about 2 million km/h on a journey towards the Shapley Supercluster. But we’re not just being pulled in this direction: Astronomers have ...

An international team of astronomers has cast new light on a huge, empty void that encircles our galaxy, the Milky Way. Scientists first described this vast structure—known as the Local Void (LV ...

You may not notice it, but our Milky Way galaxy is cruising along at 630 kilometers (~391 miles) per second. That speed is often attributed to the influence of a single gravitational source.

The post Giant Milky Way Void Could Be Result of Ancient Supernovae appeared first on Nerdist. Researchers have discovered a 500-light-year-wide void or "cavity" in the Milky Way Galaxy, which may ...

If our galaxy lies inside such a void, that could explain why local measurements of the Hubble constant seem too high. ... The Local Group, which includes the Milky Way, ...

An artist's impression of the Milky Way, seen side-on. A new study by astrophysicists from the UK and Germany has proposed our galaxy might be located in a vast 'void' in space.

Stargazers may catch a cosmic light show this Fourth of July weekend when the Milky Way appears in the night sky across the ...

The first ever map of the Milky Way's "graveyard" reveals the galaxy sometimes ejects the corpses of its deceased stars, leaving them roaming the universe as rogue black holes and neutron stars.

Scientists discover the origin of Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole. Cosmic dust could spread life from planet to planet across the Milky Way. ... If our galaxy lies inside such a void ...