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void
Sign in to savevast empty spaces between filaments which contain very few or no galaxies
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- astronomical object
- Part of
- universe
- Image
- Galaxy superclusters and galaxy voids.png
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- opposite of
- galaxy filament
- topic's main category
- Category:Voids (astronomy)
- studied by
- astrophysics
- Commons category
- Galaxy voids
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Encyclopedic overview
Simulation of the matter distribution in a cubic section of the universe. The blue fiber structures represent the matter (primarily dark matter) and the empty regions in between represent the cosmic voids.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “void” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.