The Mysterious Boötes Void: Why Scientists Are Baffled by This Cosmic Enigma

Dive deep into the enigmatic expanse of the universe known as the Boötes Void. Often referred to as the 'Great Nothing,' this vast region of space has left astronomers scratching their heads for decades. Why is it so empty? What secrets does it hold? Join us as we journey through the cosmos, unraveling the mysteries of this cosmic void, and exploring the latest theories and discoveries that challenge our understanding of the universe. Featuring interviews with leading experts, stunning visualizations, and a narrative that will keep you on the edge of your seat, this video is a must-watch for every space enthusiast. Prepare to be amazed and bewildered by the wonders of the Boötes Void. 🌌✨

[@andrewbako9494]

Given the size of the universe a large void somewhere seems within the realm of statistical probability

[@anatolyklypin4815]

Nope. It is not. Large areas with low density of galaxies are wide spread. There are catalogs of large voids. There is a spectrum of sizes: some are small (many of them), some are larger. There is nothing mysterious about those objects. It is well studied and understood process.

[@nick-dq1hh]

@@anatolyklypin4815exactly low density, not no density.

[@aanchaallllllll]

1:58: 🌌 The Great Void is a mysterious and vast region of space with a low density of galaxies that challenges our understanding of cosmic structure. 5:10: 🌌 The universe contains vast voids with few galaxies, including the Great Void, the Aeradonna Super Hollow, and the Cons Benatici's Super Void. 8:52: 🌌 The formation of cosmic voids in the universe is still a mystery and scientists are exploring various theories to explain it. 12:49: 🌌 The study of cosmic voids provides insights into the role of dark matter and dark energy, and may offer clues about alternate universes. 17:30: 🌌 Microscopic quantum fluctuations and topological defects in the early universe may have led to the formation of cosmic voids. 21:08: 🌌 Dark matter strands known as filaments could collapse, forming cosmic voids that disrupt the flow of matter and hold clues about the universe. Recap by Tammy AI

[@captain_context9991]

Haha ALL this is ridiculous, dude. There are no "voids". This is a weird idea from the 80s. Before we knew about galactic filaments. STUFF, such as galaxies tend to string together in these galactic filaments. And where there are not so much stuff, between these filaments, they tried to explain this as "voids" and then people like you tried your best to make them sound scary and dangerous. But there are no vdoids. And that picture of the Bootes Void... Its a god damn gas cloud thats difficult to see through. Mystery solved. Christ, how lame. Im so tired of this.

[@julieinthedesert420]

Really wish people wouldn't use AI. We're about to not have any TV or movies with real people because of this mess. Also you're letting the unknown into your life. It will know everything about you in less than a second. But... ok. 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

[@tamerlanegrand]

@@julieinthedesert420 The summaries are great - chill

[@julieinthedesert420]

@tamerlanegrand don't care. Take time and do it yourself. Laziness will truly be the end for humans. Just let the robot do it... I've seen this movie, and it doesn't end well for us.

[@YogSoth]

⁠@@julieinthedesert420How is going out of your way to post time stamps on a KZbin video lazy? They are providing a service to the community. My only critique would be to try to pick more worthy videos to spend time on. This is scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to cosmology/astronomy channels.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

It's pronounced Bo-OH-teez. The two dots over the second "O" is a diaeresis indicating that successive vowels belong to a different syllables.

[@StuftBanana]

Thanks! Good to know. 🥂🖖🏼

[@dabest7194]

i think this is an ai voice.

[@kellymartell1292]

Let people pronounce it however they want.

[@douglaswilkinson5700]

@@kellymartell1292 One can. However, a mispronunciation causes one to lose credibility.

[@captain_context9991]

@@kellymartell1292 What a weird thing to say. Let people be wrong? Just like this video... Telling people about voids in space that dont exist. To create a sense of fear and mystery. "Let people have the reality they want" I get this all the time. This is science fakery.

[@lancimusprime9488]

This is one of the best simplistic explanations on a topic that has a grip of complicated speculative complex views. It really gives a person like me an overall understanding what these anomalies might be. Thank you for the great presentation

[@thecomment9489]

At 330 million light-years across the Bootes void is at least 3300 times larger than our Milky Way galaxy which is estimated to be about 100,000 to 120,000 ly across. The video incorrectly says it's 23 times larger than MWG.

[@jaredp8742]

Came to make this exact point. Glad someone beat me to it. I had to stop watching when that statement was made because it was so very obviously wrong. It's almost as if someone had Chat-GPT write their script.

[@Olebull93]

Also traveling across it at the speed of light wouldn't take you 330 million years. You would arrive instantly.

[@vincent21212]

@@jaredp8742couple that with the fact that the video keeps using false images of the void and this video belongs in the trash with the rest of them

[@zatozatoichi7920]

@@Olebull93 According to your timeframe, not the outside world's.

[@TheGillenium]

@@Olebull93​​⁠​⁠wrong, it would take you that long AT the speed of light. That’s why it’s 330 million LIGHT YEARS lol. How far light travels in a year is 1 light year. So 330 million is the amount of years light would take to traverse it. It’s frightening that people actually liked your comment.

[@76rjackson]

There's a video out there that shows the formation of vortices in water propagating across a swiming pool. And as the vortices moved through the water they were detectable as black spots swirling across the bottom of the pool. I was reminded of another recent discovery that used vortices to model the behavior of black holes. Watching those black swirls blocking out the light theough the water to the bottom of the pool made me wonder if the voids might be spacetime turbulence spinning like a vortex and blocking out the light from the galaxies behind it.

[@TheJadeFist]

So you're saying it could be a shadow? Instead of bending light around a black hole acting as a lens, it's absorbing or scattering away light at an angle that doesn't reach our side of it. Which it would have to be something absolutely massive, and/or probably alot closer than it looks in order to block out the view of such a large chunk of the universe.

[@Sniperboy5551]

In my uninformed opinion, I think they look too irregular to be due to something like that.

[@76rjackson]

@@Sniperboy5551 lol, your too humble! But it's hard to say what shape we ought to see if we don't know the cause but the pool shadows were very regular, so there's that.

[@grawss]

Crazy, I came looking to see if anyone had thought of this. My idea was regarding electricity, where if you have multiple interacting EM fields, there will be weak spots where the field lines interact, which could be considered "voids." Water works in the exact same manner, so at the very least, we've established that the universe trends toward these results on multiple different scales.

[@dinomite592]

You almost got it. The four dimensional Cosmic Webb of space-time is like the two dimensional surface of a pool. As light passes through the Cosmic Webb it is affected by the distribution and movement of mass in the Webb similar to how light is affected by the waves on the surface of a pool. The shimmering web like reflections on the bottom of a pool are similar to what happens to light passing through the Cosmos. The Cosmos was not like we see it was, we see a web like shimmering distortion of what it was. The Cosmic Webb is actually there, cosmic voids and large mass structures are actually there, but they never looked like what we see now. Large cosmic structures located further away in space-time are more distorted. Small structures like galaxies will not be distorted unless strongly gravitationally lensed, but the locations in space-time of these small structures will be greatly distorted and red shifted. Cosmic voids are not shadows, they exist, but, except for the one we are located on the edge of, they did not look the way we see them now.

[@yasglas]

This reminds me of the book series the three body problem. In which ( spoilers ahead ) alien civilization developed a defense method against other more advanced aliens. By within a region of space they were able to slow the speed of light. Making their region of space appear empty. It was called a black domain in the book cool name

[@yamchadesertbandit9368]

Amazing series

[@bradley8361]

The Universe does not comply to our understanding. The fact that there are huge gaps in our cosmological understanding only increases my curiosity.

[@arsenruotsalainen281]

Universe is gods brain.

[@Atmost11]

Lets improve our understanding, we will understand harder and understand smarter - then it will comply [this is sarcasm]

[@TheGillenium]

@@arsenruotsalainen281and our consciousness is us streaming a unique channel of that brain. Like different stations on the radio, unfortunately there’s a lot of static aka our ignorance to what else is playing.

[@carlyleporter5388]

The notion of 'what we know' has historically been very fluid. I prefer 'what we currently think we know'.

[@seanspartan2023]

The thumbnail to this video is not Boötes Void (or any other void for that matter). It's the dark molecular cloud Barnard 68 in Ofiuchus (also known as a Bok globule).

[@corssecurity]

I have received special dispensation to tell certain information on the issue of that void. It was roughly 360,000 cycles as you measure rotation around your main star. A defense contractor was tasked to create a weapon of unfathomable destructive power. There was a malfunction during a simulated full power test of the Decompiling positronic molecular disrupter. However certain safety protocols were not adhered to. The tests "were taking too long" So instead of selecting specific target it was set to wide beam. When certain safety systems were bypassed in the name of efficiency a full power wide beam was fired. The scientists were certain that the process of molecular disassociation was very quick to the inhabitants of those few galaxies. However there were a few dozen systems at the edge of the efective range where only part of the planets were disintegrated. Having the planet break up beneath you and finding oneself floating in rapidly vanishing atmosphere and warmth of what was a atmosphere is unpleasant. The responsible bureaucrats were put to death over the course of three century's. Most unpleasant. The GFL has the report. Ooops

[@razony]

My father would tell us, these dark voids are like cities spaced apart from one another. In-between the cities lies dark country side not lit up from city lights, but if you looked a bit further, you would find another city that's lit up like a Christmas tree. The problem is that the city is too far to see. But be assured, there are cities that lie there.

[@theweedphilosopher]

Space Is called space for a reason

[@razony]

@@theweedphilosopher I was wondering about that. lol

[@baconatorrodriguez4651]

Oh ok. Now I'm assured.

[@TheGillenium]

@@baconatorrodriguez4651I’m eating a baconator as I read this comment. We are in a simulation after all.

[@jaseastroboy9240]

The whole video seems to be trying to word things to suggest something made the voids, there's something there that caused the void, etc. But seeing as the universe isn't an even distribution of matter, matter clumps into galaxies and galaxy clusters. Wouldn't that logically leave voids? Aren't voids empty simply because another region has an excess of matter? It seems easier to imagine areas of matter attracting more of the surrounding matter or being able to hold onto any matter that drifts into those dense regions. Rather than trying to imagine something in the voids causing matter to be repelled.

[@curiodyssey3867]

Yes you are exactly correct, like 100 percent correct. There is other incorrect information in the video as well

[@Atmost11]

yes and that is the challenge they present, because some of the voids are too cleared out given our estimation of the age of the universe so to speak

[@tnnetnattninuttn4627]

Something is casuing the whole universe to inflate faster and faster.

[@garyk1334]

​@@tnnetnattninuttn4627If we live in a multiverse would neighbouring universes pull ours apart faster & faster ?

[@wolfumz]

Yeah. These kinds of videos really suck. The research she the physics underneath the script are bad, surface level trash. You never really get a good understanding of what the evidence says, or what the level of confidence is. They are a lot less mysterious than this videos tone makes it sound. Sadly, the real mysteries of astronomy are actuality really interesting, but they take a lot of time, expertise, and energy to explain. So you won't see it on TV or popular YT channels. It's just so much easier to churn out trash.

[@MarkSheeres]

I’m sure I’m not the first person to comment this, but the comparison at 0:40 is wrong. 330,000,000÷100,000 (diameter if Milky Way) is more than 23.

[@MarkSheeres]

It’s actually pretty incredible. If the Milky Way were the size of a half dollar coin, then the Bootes void would be the size of a football field! That’s a whole lotta nothing!

[@tarotreadingsbysteven8545]

I remember when i was younger i watched a documentary about the void and i had a dream it was announced on the news that it was because of non hostile aliens that just really liked their privacy keeping their galactic shades drawn. How wild would it be if that was the case 😂

[@yelenabaykova7419]

😂 aaaaand then we find out it’s exactly that

[@jondunmore4268]

That's a pretty particular dream. You sure the aliens in the void didn't transmit it into your brain?

[@TURBOMIKEIFY]

Then, if we opened their galactic shades…. BOOM! Hostile aliens.

[@kasperneedspeace]

Ever read The Three Body Problem?

[@jaseastroboy9240]

If the aliens are hiding there may be something they are hiding from. If you find their hiding place what lengths would they go to to keep you silent? Also, non-hostile when there is a choice does not mean, unable to be hostile when there is no other choice.

[@KeepItReal33]

I would like the James Webb telescope to look at these voids. I would be willing to bet it will show something in the “voids”.

[@curiodyssey3867]

Yes, it does. It's not a complete void, simply an area where the average density of the galaxys are lower than the surrounding areas

[@thekingofmojacar5333]

@@curiodyssey3867 Yes right, but this average density is very week, more caracteristic is the cold spot which inspire the idea of a big crunch (collaps) of the previous universe... But the most interesting would be to know exactly what really is and what moves dark matter and dark energy? I have my ideas here, but I am not sure and maintain my doubts about their existing...

[@beingjohn392]

My brain hurts contemplating the possibilities… Maybe our universe is nothing more than a simple DNA strand of a larger universe

[@commodoor6549]

Emptiness is a probilistically likely phenomenon of the Universe. Just as there are more densely populated areas of the universe, there must also be less densely populated areas. It's the Alaska of the Universe.

[@thekingofmojacar5333]

@@beingjohn392 Why not? May be our universe is only a part of a multiverse... 100 years ago we still thought our Milky Way represents the entire cosmos (and it seems to be only a trillionth part of it)...

[@Boonweezy]

I think they said it early on in the video “the universe should look the same in every direction if viewed on a large enough scale. We are only looking at the observable universe and it could very well look the same in every direction we just cant see on that scale.

[@splifsend]

If you travel at the speed of light, you don't experience time..

[@Synthematix]

The speed of light is slow in space

[@toolbag-sy9ij]

photons do not experience time because the speed of the light is the constant that time is relative to.

[@marvinmartin4692]

This is what seriously interests me with cosmology!

[@EliasGraves]

Our universe is definitely someone’s brain.

[@MarkSheeres]

I hope it’s somebody nice.

[@garyk1334]

It must be a flerf due to the massive voids

[@goated6146]

This is what I’ve thought for some time now and there’s a decent amount of evidence suggesting this but no credible scientist really wants to come out and full on suggest it (even if they hint at it) for fear they’d sound absolutely ridiculous.

[@anthonyclegg1511]

🤣🤣😂😂🐱🐱.

[@TheEnigmaUniverse-vt2pm]

"Your videos always leave me in awe and eager to learn more about the mysteries of the universe. Thank you for fueling my curiosity. "

[@REF49]

It would help to create a visual model of empty space (voids and the empty corridors that presumably connect them). It would look like a termite nest. Talk about alternative realities.

[@uuzd4s]

The Negative proves the Positive. If there are spaces in the Universe that contain mass clusters of Galaxies, Nebule, Black Holes, Dark Matter & Dark Energy, there's bound to be regions that don't have Any of this. You just have to remember the Scale we're workin with here.

[@knerduno5942]

Except that is seems most of the universe is spread out like a bomb went off. One would not expect an area of the explosion to be void of any debris,

[@uuzd4s]

@@knerduno5942 You're right but you thinking on too small of a scale. Any explosion is simi random and has areas of hi density and those that don't. Now put that on a larger scale and multiply it by infinity.

[@knerduno5942]

@@uuzd4s Oh, I am thinking, but it's still the same/ Even the areas of low density is still not devoid of anything like this area is.

[@uuzd4s]

@@knerduno5942 So you think there are Zero empty spaces in an unimaginably huge Cosmic level explosion that's been spreading out for 14 Billion yrs in the perpetuity of the universe? Interesting 😕

[@jaseastroboy9240]

@@knerduno5942 There are most certainly voids in an explosion. A grenade set off in a room does not create an even and uniform shrapnel pattern. There are areas of wall that are untouched (voids) and other areas that have been impacted by large pieces of material. Also any non-symmetry in the initial source of the explosion would make the voids appear chaotic in there distribution. For example, the end of the grenade with the safety pin would likely result in a different dispersion pattern, possibly large voids, that do not appear in other directions.

[@beingjohn392]

Like anything…be it a cotton ball, a broccoli slice , a sponge… Things have large voids. I don’t see why the universe should be any different.

[@theholyghost]

If the universe is structured like a “web” made of clusters then the fact that there are voids is not a mystery but a necessary component of its geography.

[@jd9119]

This is true and is why dramatizing cosmology sometimes should be avoided.

[@theholyghost]

@@jd9119 Word up. Yes, my sentiment, exactly.

[@TheGillenium]

The mystery lies in the size of these particular voids. There’s space between the web yes, but it’s generally consistent in size.

[@Synthematix]

Your warranty is now VOID

[@alatreon7451]

Now I need to have more southern narrators over science videos like this

[@mtb416]

Definitely a pleasant listen.

[@fumblerooskie]

We don't really know that it's a "void". We just can't see anything in it. That doesn't mean it's empty. It could be filled with very dim objects.

[@andrew12bravo21]

Or a gigantic Type 3 civilization.

[@etsequentia6765]

Well, black does make you look slimmer.

[@viralsheddingzombie5324]

it could be filled with jelly.

[@TheJadeFist]

or it could be mostly particulates

[@flyingnembis7973]

Then you know what he means ..

[@markmahan38]

My hypothesis or theory for voids is the lack of or near absence of energy. Energy or radiation heat Is the determining factor for how and why galaxies congregate. The voids are cold spots that lack energy, creating cold spots of voids. Something we know from studies into the concept of absolute zero tests. Show the closer you get to absolute zero. The less matter and therefore energy losses energy of all manners of velocity and movement. Meaning in stasis or "being frozen in time". Photons or light waves slow and lose energy passing these voids. I think that is because of the coldness in these voids. So less energetic matter in a void is what makes voids. The clustering of Galaxies is due to the law of thermal dynamics and energetic convergences. Energy attracts energy. Energy needs other energetic matters to create energy to make solid matter. So naturally energy will converge or congregate close together. Leaving voids that create cold spots. A lack of or near absence of energetic matter are voids.

[@KittyKaperz]

This does seem the most likely. I support this hypothesis.

[@NeovanGoth]

That's a very confused (and not very scientific) way to say "voids are empty, because stuff is elsewhere".

[@TheGillenium]

@@NeovanGothand he repeated himself from what I can see at least three times lol

[@clovissalvadori3027]

Wonderfull!

[@JJ-ju8wz]

What I've always wondered about this void is perhaps there is a massive blackhole in the center. It may have consumed everything completely and since there is no light to bend around it then there's no way to detect it.

[@Pixeleyes]

That just swaps one mystery for another, though. Why is there only one black hole that big? And how did it get that big, because that defies everything we understand about black holes.

[@Dismythed]

This is a first class science program. Thanks.

[@captain_context9991]

Wow. This is a complete made-up story to try and make space and science sound mysterious and scary. There is no such thing as a void. But Im probably not going to be able to explain this to you if you rhink this is first class science. Dont fall for these things. Just dont.

[@BLSFL_HAZE]

I REALLY wish this picture of an interstellar dust cloud would stop being used as a picture of an intergalactic void.

[@timmcmanus1645]

The video is really lacking. No mention of the KBC Void which the Milky Way galaxy resides in, approximately a few hundred million light years from the center of this nearly spherical void. Additionally, it's nearly 2 billion light years in diameter. How could you not mention this?

[@doobiedoo5450]

Excellent vid.

[@captain_context9991]

No this is all lies, dude. There is no such thing as "voids". All the pictures and material here is from different stuff.

[@olegyamleq7796]

WOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! and great video, thank you!!!

[@dinomite592]

Cosmic voids are like hot air balloons. Diffusion forces matter and energy to flow from zones of higher density to zones of lower density. The fastest particles make it to the cosmic voids first and populate the voids with hot particles. These high velocity, near the speed of light, hot particles exert force to expand the voids making the voids larger and emptier. The population of hot particles in cosmic voids is not dense enough to heat the voids, and there is nothing in the cosmic voids to interact with the high energy particles, the hot particles just pass through and then push on the walls of the cosmic voids. The sources of the hottest particles are Quasars and other high energy cosmic interactions; the geometry of the Cosmic Webb means most polar jet geysers are pointed at cosmic voids.

[@junemoonchild69]

😂At least you used the proper terminology. I like it!

[@forsdykemontague1017]

The void might be surrounded by a Klingon cloaking device 😂

[@junemoonchild69]

😂😂😂

[@ianclarke3627]

From the inside looking out it looks like a void . From the outside looking in it's a flap reinforcing the valve that connects to the air pump. Seriously though they could be the effects of black holes which are supposed to in time devour the entire universe .

[@1cut1kill]

It's not an actual "void". It's a thick cloud of dust with not enough light on it for us to see it.

[@itsmetim3919]

00.30 He says. If u travel at the speed of light it will take 330 milion years. Thats 23 times the size of our milkyway. Our milkyway is 100.000 light years. The math aint mathing

[@zatozatoichi7920]

Here's a wild one: a highly advanced, galactic civilization is hiding shit we shouldn't be aware of.

[@tuusnullorum]

The KBC void is the biggest one in the visible universe, and we're nearly dead-center within it.

[@walterfristoe4643]

I haven't heard them called "primary black holes," but I have heard them referred to as "primordial black holes." 🤔

[@ericvanvlandren8987]

Long on flowery language, extremely short on scientific accuracy. 1) The Great Void would be expected to contain approximately 2000 galaxies, not 10,000. 2) This does NOT violate the Lambda CDM model as one needs to consider much larger areas to claim homogeneity. 3) In fact given the granular variety of the Universe an area like this with a low density of 60 galaxies should be expected. 4) Just as there are large “voids”, really just areas of lower density, so too are there areas of relative high density. This is entirely consistent with the foamy structure revealed by the cosmic microwave background map. 5) Bootes and others are not some incomprehensible mystery as our overwrought narrator seems to think. Rather they are interesting and normal structures in the universe - one type of many that merit study, but not bafflement. 6) Oh, and “great” does not have an “e” on the end of it.

[@pauloboyle477]

Just sayin I’m 30 sec in and gotta say great job on the script so far. Very well written

[@sagar1216]

Now I really doubt the KZbin algorithm, why I didn't get this channel recommend

[@blackcatgege]

Remember what Albert say time is not what you think it is

[@blackcatgege]

I bring change

[@sagar1216]

​@@blackcatgegethis sentence was for people who were unaware of relativity, now at least 90 percentage of the viewers of this channel would have closer understanding of time according to Einstein

[@michaelcopper7635]

There is some great grand & awesome powerful energy at work here ••• ••• ••• How this could defy - The Big Bang ! Baffles & amazes me ••• so amazing and scary at the same time. So much we see we don’t understand not even actioning what we can’t see, the unseen unable to see. Us humans are but babies, in the grand scheme of things. We are only in pre-K going through the summer … Kindergarten class starts in the the fall, our half days to learn our letters & numbers.. Who’s our teachers ••• ••• ?

[@olddude3266]

The more we see out in space, the more we will be "baffled".

[@bogtrotter5110]

Does not look at all like a void, but an obscuring dark cloud.

[@maxstrelets263]

Such things are called "dark nebula", like Barnard 68. Which, by the way, is similar in shape to a boot. Coincidence? I don't think so)

[@jondunmore4268]

I was thinking that too... but if it's a "cloud" of dark gas or dust, then spectroscopic instruments would read it because it is made up of material that radio waves can bounce off - but there is apparently "nothing" there; nothing obscuring something behind the blackness - just ... nothing. wow

[@bogtrotter5110]

@@jondunmore4268 It seems that the stars that are on the edges of the 'void" are slightly obscured and slightly visible. If it were a void there would be none visible. Could it be dark matter obscuring the stars?

[@emrek99205]

Since we cannot see dark matter it could be closer to us and thus appear enormous. If it were a nearby galaxy of dark matter or a "gas" nebula of dark matter it wouldn't necessarily be a solid block and might still let some light from the other side of it get through. Which is exactly what we observe. If it were really a void of space then why is it angular and not an area? A desert 100km away might appear to have trees to the left and right of it and few in its direction, but if you look further (assuming you can) you'll see trees on the far side. That doesn't happen with these voids and galaxies which indicates that the "void" (or desert) isn't empty but is somehow blocking our perspective of what is beyond it.

[@captain_context9991]

Yeah exactly. Well observed.... The thing is. Its impossible to take a picture of a void. Mostly because "voids" dont actually exist. This is an idea to try and explain why we see more STUFF in the form of galaxies over there, and less of them over there. And then they tried to map that and realised there were huge areas with only very few galaxies. But then we discovered GALACTIC FILAMENTS. Which explains why galaxies tend to lump together and follow long strands of stuff that twists and flows. Almost like dripping paint in water. So there is nothing mysterious, dangerous, or otherwise amazing about "voids". They dont exist. Thats it. And that picture of Bootes Void.... Its just a gas cloud. They ALL use that same picture. And if they cant even see that this picture is just a random, bug very big gas cloud.... Then that says all there is to say about their silly voids too.

[@fredlight]

So many mysteries that could get an easy answer if we admitted that there was no Big bang and that the universe is infinite, no beginning, no end, in space and time...et voilà.

[@junemoonchild69]

The easiest answer would be to not have any question to begin with, n'est pas? 😂

[@fredlight]

Nope, never choose the easy path, it leads to the dark side of the force :D so let humanity and scientists keep on searching even though we may never found some answers .@@junemoonchild69

[@XtianApi]

We are talking about a lack of activity, a lack of clumping, as if it itself is a thing. It is not more unique than great galaxy clusters

[@DeadSlayer0683]

Is it not possible that it’s just the result of rare mineral collection for the production of potentially extremely advanced technologies by beings uncaring of the effects caused by their actions?

[@jean-pierredevent970]

Sometimes the structures remind me of slime mold reaching out to pieces of food.

[@gogs244]

Lots of different ways of saying "we don't know"

[@blast1225]

I wonder if level 5 civilizations live within the voids.

[@anthonyehrenzweig1635]

This commentary cannot even get its basic facts right; our own galaxy is around 100,000 light years in diameter. The Void is 330 million light years in diameter. If you divide 100,000 into 330M you get a factor of 3,300 not 23. So this void is 3,300 wider than our galaxy not 23 times. Pathetic.

[@DeskDrumGun]

Hell yeah brotherrr!

[@1chumley1]

Somebody Rockin' knocking the Bootes!

[@hvitekristesdod]

If you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares back into you

[@friderification]

My thought has always been that an anti matter device was detonated and this is the scar

[@markhagerman3072]

Each of the 'o' chaacters in Boötes is sounded separately. The correct pronunciation, as best I can represent it, is BOE-uh-teez

[@CyanBlackflower]

Thank You. That seems about right.

[@the101connection]

This is a great channel. I'm about to launch a new online radio station here in Perth, Western Australia and would love to promote your channel onto and restream some of your audios, with your permission. Regards Michael

[@captain_context9991]

Dude this is not a great channel. This is not science. This is sensationalising "space" and science in a mysterious and magic way. To give people the impression that science has no idea and that everybodys personal opinion of science and space, is equally valid. There are no "voids" and all the material used here is from completely different stuff.

[@alexeyl22]

Excellent cameraman work at shooting void flybys.

[@VanRahsah]

The Higgs Boson would like to challenge your "no evidence of a multiverse" bit.

[@mattball420]

Maybe the matter of the universe is orbiting the outside of a sphere, the void is just where it all started but is emtpying as things all move away from it in all directions but all come around to the point opposite the void on the other side of the sphere but there hasnt been enough matter gathered on the opposite side yet for us to see it as clumping back up

[@ssnerd583]

...very interesting theory.....and oddly intriguing

[@chrisfloyd6615]

Imagine it was the centre of the universe and it was a mega black hole at the centre of EVERYTHING

[@mystuff8602]

Boy, I thought this was from years ago, not one month! We don't understand Boötes Void? Hogwash! We know that it's two large voids that merged. That is the reason for the tubular structure in of the few galaxies within. We've known this for some time.

[@markkens9]

Could you make a video about The Great Attractor?

[@kawwabonga]

despite factual incorrectness, it's amazing how good ChatGPT became! as well as speech synthesis.

[@glenwaldrop8166]

What if Bootes Void is simply a large structure between us and that part of the galaxy, we only see a tiny window through a gap, that's why we see the few stars and galaxies in the void that we do. It only takes one finger in the right spot to hide an entire world from your sight.

[@wb3904]

That would mean the void would move around throughout the year.

[@glenwaldrop8166]

@@wb3904 not at that scale.

[@hanoapuaa]

I think the void is where the “big bang” happened

[@biggrayalien4791]

I feel like this was written by someone who wanted to fill a word count, or in this case, a time requirement. You could have taken out 40% of this, and it'd be a shorter video for sure, but at least it would have unique sentences for the entire length. You repeat or reword so many phrases and concepts that I had to say out loud, "...Yes, you _already_ said this five times already. I _get_ it, can we move on to the next subject or are you going to repe--oh you're just going to repeat another thing you already brought up."

[@gillianlovell9578]

"Primordial" black holes, not "primary".

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

Your accent is amazing!!

[@andreasandremyrvold]

So most probably just random empty spaces left by an early big bang nanosecond "fingerprint" that in expansion over eons of time has become huge, I mean, there are several other empty spaces of varying size, but some are greater.

[@lwriker1304]

Seems to me that void is the default existance. The question is how did the structures of matter form.

[@captain_context9991]

Yeah there is no such thing as a "void". Its a thing people said in the 80s to explain why there were more galaxies in certain places and less of them elsewhere. There is no reason they would be evenly distributed. Look up Galactic filaments and that explains it perfectly. We didnt know about galactic filaments in the 80s. And that picture of the "Bootes Void" they always use... Its not a picture of a void at all: You cant take a picture of a void. because they dont exist. The picture they always use is a random picture of a giant gas cloud thats hard to see through. Thats all there is to this.

[@pinchopaxtonsgreatestminds9591]

So what are the physics for these cosmic voids? In reality the whole image of space is inverted. Gravity doesn't move towards mass, it moves towards holes at the centre of mass where it spins to create the mass, and the matter. Gravity is made up from many spins which bump together to create propagation towards their areas of least resistance.. holes in gravity. The galaxies have a nucleus which is a huge hole in gravity. The voids have no holes, so a void is where all of the gravity is bunched up without any holes to create matter. It's like a gravity lake, and what you want to see as galaxies are the bubbles in the lake. The holes around the void create the light as gravity collides inside the holes, and out-flows as light. Where gravity is not colliding inside holes you have voids. Just gravity, and it isn't trapped... it's just blackness.

[@georgelogreco8810]

Ooh! Look! Much more emptiness here than over there.

[@Aino66]

I just keep thinking of sticky dough being pulled apart and the large holes that are formed ☺ maybe the voids are just tears in the fabric of space suggesting it is being pulled apart?

[@colinjava8447]

It would be 3300 times the diameter of the milky way, not 23. The only way to comprehend it is scaling it down, but even then, the earth becomes atomic in scale

[@michaelcopper7635]

A what if, a big what if ••• I’m an amateur, but what if some of these solar systems or even galaxies are charged differently, have different charges period for instance, a negative and a negative for a positive and a positive Push each other apart, did this happen in an area of the universe, making these voids?

[@michaelkahn8744]

4-D Hypershere model of Universe can easily explain Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Void and even the reason why the measurement values of Expansion Rate are around 70 km/sec-Mpc Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravity, Void and Antigravity, ... all these are same phenomena. They just look different. The problem of modern physics is they're trying to explain everything with particle physics and the physics is being cornered more and more to the dead end. To escape the dead end, they invent or design another imaginary particle in vain instead of trying to revise their way to approach to the problem. I agree to the idea that the interaction between mass and space must be explained with quantum mechanics. But that doesn't mean gravity is the QM phenomena. That's because gravity is not a force. Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravity, Antigravity, Void... all these are just joint effects of the expansion of the Universe and the curvature of spacetime. Details are given below. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity states that spacetime is curved by the presence of mass. This curvature influences the motion other objects with mass and gives rise to gravitation. Thus, gravity is a result of geometric features in spacetime. However, we also observe gravitational effects - curvature of spacetime - in areas without any detectable mass. This has given rise to the concept of dark matter, which is matter that does not interact in any detectable way with normal matter, except through gravity. So, there is some large quantity of dark matter scattered throughout the universe, which curves spacetime and causes gravitational effects just like normal matter, but we cannot see or detect it with any known method. An alternative theory to the identity of dark matter is proposed - it is not matter at all, but rather an intrinsic curvature of spacetime. In other words, spacetime is not naturally flat. Even in the absence of matter, we observe some inherent curvature of spacetime. So, the question is now - why is spacetime naturally curved? Why is it not flat in the absence of mass? The universe is 4-dimensional, with 3 spatial dimensions and one dimension in time. Rather than consider time as a linear dimension, we can consider it as a radial one. Therefore, rather than describing the universe with a Cartesian coordinate system, we describe it with a 4-dimensional spherical coordinate system - 3 angular coordinates, φ1, φ2, φ3, and one radial coordinate in time, t. We live on the 3-dimensional surface of a 4-dimensional bubble which is expanding radially in time. Thus, the Big Bang represents t=0, the beginning of time. The crucial point is that the expansion of the universe is not homogeneous in all directions. The expansion rate at one point on the bubble’s surface may differ slightly from another point near it. The universe is only roughly spherical in 4 dimensions, the same way that the Earth is only roughly spherical in 3 dimensions. The same way we observe local mountains and valleys on the surface of Earth, we observe local “mountains” and “valleys” on the surface of the universe bubble. The inhomogeneity of the expansion of the universe has given rise to natural curvature of spacetime. This natural curvature causes the phenomenon of “dark matter”. “Valleys” in spacetime pull matter in, similarly to the warping of spacetime of massive objects. So “dark matter” is really “valleys” in spacetime that are expanding slower than the regions surrounding it. These valleys tend to pull matter in and create planets, stars, and galaxies - regions of space with higher-than-average densities of mass. Conversely, “mountains” in spacetime will repel matter away, an “anti-gravitational” effect, which gives rise to cosmic voids in space where we observe no matter. Each point on the surface of the universe bubble traces out a time arrow in 4-dimensional space, perpendicular to the surface. These time arrows are not parallel to each other since the universe is not flat. This causes points to have nonzero relative velocity away from each other. It is generally accepted that the universe is expanding faster than observable energy can explain, and this is expansion is believe to be still accelerating. The “missing” energy required to explain these observations has given rise to the theory of dark energy. The time dilation caused by non-parallel time arrows can be proposed as an explanation for dark energy. Alternatively, dark energy is real energy coming from potential energy gradients caused by non-parallel time arrows. As a sanity check, we can calculate the expansion rate of the universe based on the universe bubble model. Since the radius of the universe bubble is expanding at the speed of light in the time direction, it increases at 1 light second per second. Therefore, the “circumference” of the 3-dimensional surface increases by 2π light seconds per second, or about 1.88*10^6 km/s. This expansion is distributed equally across the 3-dimensional surface, so the actual observed expansion rate is proportional to the distance from the observer. At present, the age of the universe is estimated to be 13.8 billion years, so the radius of the universe bubble is 13.8 billion light years, or about 4233 megaparsecs (3.26 million light years to 1 Mpc). Thus, we can calculate the expansion rate of the universe, per megaparsec from the observer, as: Expansion rate = ((d(circumference))/dt)/radiusofuniverse=(1.88*〖10〗^6 km⁄s)/(2π*4233Mpc)=(1.88*〖10〗^6 km⁄s)/26598Mpc=70.82(km⁄s)/Mpc The popularly accepted empirical expansion rate is 73.5 +/- 2.5 km/s/Mpc, so our calculated value is close. There may be some additional source of expansion (or observed red shift) to make up for the discrepancy. For example, if two adjacent points have some gravitational gradient due to non-parallel time arrows, then light passing through these points will be red-shifted. - Cited from www.academia.edu/82481487/Title_Alternative_Explanation_of_Dark_Matter_and_Dark_Energy

[@lisabrightly]

Maybe a black hole chewed up everything in that region.. i would stay away from there!

[@junemoonchild69]

😂I wouldn't say it was that end of the chewing process.

[@Valjurai]

I just wish the thumbnail wasn't that of a bok globule... but I understand that it's kinda hard to get a photo of intergalactic voids.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

The Vacuum of Nothing is apparently much stronger than the Force of Gravity, there's a whole lot more of Nothing beyond the Universe than gravitation objects.- One terrifying aspect of Voids is if you find yourself floating around in one, you would have no indication you were drifting towards a Black Hole until the increased gravity got your attention, and then it may be too late to save yourself from the radiations emitted from the singularity

[@VladV-kx6ky]

My people had to destroy the stars to starve them out.

[@junemoonchild69]

😂Which ones??

[@rtrThanos]

If gravity isn’t the “cosmic web,” then I have no idea what this guy is talking about. You can’t just throw out a term like that with no explanation.

[@junemoonchild69]

😂Exactly! He did throw it out.

[@luminousfractal420]

"i destroyed a universe...I DESTROYED A UNIVERSE" -Mantrid

[@justanotheryoutubechannel3102]

gawdangit astronomers are ANNOYING!!! I absolutely CANNOT FIND a star chart that shows the location of the void inside the constellation which is RIGHT NEXT TO the giant arc and the great ring!!! I always thought the void looked like an "exit wound" and its immediate proximity to the giant arc looks like that is the culprit that hoovered up most of the galaxies in the void, but the internet refuses to let me combine the void, the arc AND the ring in one image! the giant arc image i superimposed over the bootes constellation doesn't include the ring either and i can't find a ring star chart either meaning i'll have to scale THAT to the giant arc and might have to rotate the image too. you'd think SOMEONE would combine the 3 into ONE FREAKIN' IMAGE the same way no one thought to show where the great attractor is on a picture of the milky way. way to obscure information! the bootes void images, and there are effing only TWO! are both on busy star charts with no references to merge with the constellation.

[@iamsuperfritz]

I like my ridiculous hypothesis that it’s galactic civilizations that have deployed Dyson spheres around most of the stars. For some reason the process doesn’t work on the tubular shaped galaxies.

[@EQ_EnchantX]

All the stars you see in the sky are in the milky way galaxy. So its possible that the void is not just missing stars...but missing galaxies!

[@knerduno5942]

Or space in that area has been damages by warp travel. Oh wait, that was just forgotten about.

[@lazaruslong697]

That would be a decent hypothesis... If it took in account waste heat those dysons would inevitably produce and which we would be able to detect.

[@EQ_EnchantX]

@@lazaruslong697 Not true...Let me introduce you to Mr.Matrioshka Brain The concept of a matrioshka brain comes from the idea of using Dyson spheres to power an enormous, star-sized computer. The term "matrioshka brain" originates from matryoshka dolls, which are wooden Russian nesting dolls. Matrioshka brains are composed of several Dyson spheres nested inside one another, the same way that matryoshka dolls are composed of multiple nested doll components. The innermost Dyson sphere of the matrioshka brain would draw energy directly from the star it surrounds and give off large amounts of waste heat while computing at a high temperature. The next surrounding Dyson sphere would absorb this waste heat and use it for its computational purposes, all while giving off waste heat of its own. This heat would be absorbed by the next sphere, and so on, with each sphere radiating at a lower temperature than the one before it. For this reason, Matrioshka brains with more nested Dyson spheres would tend to be more efficient, as they would waste less heat energy. The inner shells could run at nearly the same temperature as the star itself, while the outer ones would be close to the temperature of interstellar space.

[@thorstenkrug144]

Nope. You would still detect Tons of IR Emission spots. So no DS's.

[@junemoonchild69]

There are actually billions of stars inside the Bootes Void. They are just not visible.

[@forgetheaven]

Is this void just point of space where space it self is stretching so fast that we just dont see whats there, because light just cant reach us

[@athtarasterios9695]

It's reapers!

[@azcomicgeek]

The universe is more like soap bubbles than baking bread. There is much more empty space than mass,

[@garyk1334]

The boss ran out of Playdough

[@kamikaze1213]

“Buutus” 😂

[@leaf_robinson]

Anyone else who "final-frontiered" along in the intro? 🤣🤣

[@GeraldM_inNC]

He lost me as soon as he claimed that dark matter and dark energy are indisputable facts.

[@KalishKovacs]

Dark matter and dark energy are indisputable. They're placeholders for whatever holding galaxies and causing cosmic expansion, respectively. Are you disputing those two things?

[@GeraldM_inNC]

@@KalishKovacs I'm disputing that scientists regard them as placeholders.

[@williamgordon2919]

@@KalishKovacs yes

[@blackcatgege]

Good you got less than a year

[@kabukillmee.0125]

As soon as he said tapestry I knew this was written by ai