The cosmic web
filaments of galaxies around vast empty voids
all around us
Galaxies gather into clusters strung along filaments hundreds of millions of light-years long, around voids. The famous clusters and voids here are at their real positions; the web between them is a statistical model.
- each dot is a galaxy · the Milky Way sits in the Laniakea supercluster
- the Boötes Void, 330 million ly across, is almost empty
- kind
- place in the universe at large
- size
- 93 billion light-years across
More places in the universe at large
- the observable universe everything light has had time to reach us from, in 13.8 billion years
- Virgo Cluster cluster of galaxies
- Boötes Void one of the largest empty regions known
- Bullet Cluster colliding galaxy clusters
- El Gordo colliding galaxy clusters
- JADES-GS-z14-0 one of the most distant galaxies ever confirmed