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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 😂

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.

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

The universe is extremely large which falls offully short in describing it's size. In the larger context of defining what is considered a void in such a large area as the universe of subjective to say the least. There are voids in between the threads of our clothes but to us they seem to be completely smooth, but to microorganisms they are huge void's

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”.

This is what seriously interests me with cosmology!

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

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

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

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.

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

I strongly suspect there are no such things as dark matter or dark energy. The word "dark" is simply a placeholder for failed hypothesis. Our entire cosmology is likely completely wrong and simply inventing undetectable things to fix the failed hypotheses is kinda sad. Something is rotten in the State of Denmark.

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.

"Primordial" black holes, not "primary".

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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.

Our universe is definitely someone’s brain.

En el libro “ASCENSO, Civilización de los Humus” publicado en Amazon. Se plantea una teoría que unifica la física relativista y la cuántica, respaldada con un cálculo matemático y analítico de la constante fina (1/137) para la 3 dimensión y las demás dimensiones que conforman el Universo. Incluye los universos paralelos y espejos. Plantea una teoría matemática de cómo debería estar conformado el multiverso y la acción de la materia y energía oscura dentro de él.

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."

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

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.

Now I really doubt the RU-vid algorithm, why I didn't get this channel recommend

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

The void might be surrounded by a Klingon cloaking device 😂

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

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

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?

Do we as humans know implicitly that we exist in this void? Perhaps this is why we as a species are enamored with innovation.

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

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?

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

Excellent vid.

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

I wonder if level 5 civilizations live within the voids.

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

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.

This is a first class science program. Thanks.

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

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

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

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

How we get Galaxy clusters and Galactic Filaments is the same process we get Voids and Super Voids. Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Gravity is the process over eons and whalla.

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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 .

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.

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.

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

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.

We should watch the stars on the edge of this void carefully and long.

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

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

As gravitation has no effect between bodies and structures of normal matter that are moving apart at more than c., it is no surprise that the universe is structured as a web. Gravity is completely local.

Can we ever fully understand the universe? I don't think so.

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

ANTS are the answer. Yes the humble (or not so) ant.

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

Somebody Rockin' knocking the Bootes!

Muy interesante,parece que la materia tiende a agruparse y concentrarse y a la vez dejar espacios más despoblados y vacíos.

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

It's reapers!

My life is a cosmic void. 💀

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

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?

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.

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

I dont understand… Isnt the simple fact that its vast discrediting it from being « void » since it means theres distances between composants? I think void doesnt exist, until we die.

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 ••• ••• ?

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

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

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

I love the narrator for your videos. What is his name?

Whoever wrote the script fpr this debacle should be stripped of any acedemic award or qualification. Just awful

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

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