Let’s Travel to the Scariest Place in The Universe
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Kurzgesagt·Science & Education

Let’s Travel to the Scariest Place in The Universe

TL;DR

Cosmic voids are the universe's scariest places — vast, growing bubbles of absolute nothingness that will eventually consume everything.

Key Points

  • 1.The Boötes Supervoid is the largest known void, roughly 300 million light-years wide, yet contains almost no galaxies despite its enormous size.
  • 2.Voids aren't just empty space — gravity actively pulls matter *out* of them, making them self-reinforcing and nearly impossible for galaxies to naturally enter.
  • 3."Void galaxies" are the rarest galaxies known, surviving as faint, isolated specks inside voids — smaller, bluer, and forming stars slowly due to zero neighboring influence.
  • 4.Dark energy is most visible inside voids, where it inflates the emptiness and slowly tears apart galaxy filaments — making voids the front line of the universe's eventual demise.
  • 5.In ~100 trillion years, supervoids will dominate the observable universe, and desperate alien civilizations may flee into void galaxies as the last habitable refuges before the cosmos goes dark.

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