An artist's impression of our Milky Way. (Image credit: ESO/L. Calçada)
Astronomers have reported new evidence that our planet and the Milky Way galaxy are located inside a vast void that is distorting our observations of space.
A bold proposal based on an analysis of the Big Bang's traces claims that our galaxy may be located in a region 2 billion light years in radius that is 20% lower in density than average.
If these results are confirmed, they could help astronomers determine the true age of our Universe and offer a solution to one of the most perplexing mysteries in cosmology – the contradiction known as the Hubble tension, which suggests that the distant Universe expanded more slowly in the past than the nearby Universe today.
You may like
-
What if the Big Bang wasn't the beginning? New research suggests it may have happened inside a black hole.
-
Gamma-ray bursts show the largest structure in the Universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we thought: 'We still don't agree on what it all means.'
Sourse: www.livescience.com
