Oct 2 1981
From The Space Library
Astronomers at three major U.S. observatories found a vast region of empty space so large that 2,000 galaxies the size of the Milky Way could fit into it. The void, about 400 million light years from Earth's solar system, seemed to be growing as galaxies near its boundaries gravitated together.
A survey of the large-scale structure of the universe by telescopes at Mt. Hopkins, Arizona, Kitt Peak, and Mt. Palomar showed enormous gaps in three directions near the constellation Bootes. The cosmological principle, basis of modern theories about the universe, assumed that distribution of matter and motion in all directions of space was homogeneous; the new finding would challenge that principle (W Post, Oct 2/81; NY Times, Oct 2/81, A-1)
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