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Milky Way’s loner status is upheld

Galaxy’s location in a vast cosmic void could help explain dueling universe expansion rates

simulation of cosmic void

GLOWING THREADS  Simulations like the Millennium Simulation Project show glowing galaxies clumping along cosmic filaments. But the Milky Way lives in the dark no-man’s-land between the threads.

Millennium Simulation Project

By Lisa Grossman

- More than 2 years ago

If the Milky Way exists in the biggest cosmic void ever observed, that could solve a puzzling mismatch between ways to measure how fast the universe is expanding.