IN AUGUST, radio astronomers announced that they had found an enormous hole in the universe. Nearly a billion light years across, the void lies in the constellation Eridanus and has far fewer ...

Astronomers have detected the universe’s largest known cosmological supervoid in the Southern constellation of Eridanus. Spanning some 1.8 billion light years, the team remains mainly baffled as ...

Explore the Boötes Void, the universe's vast "desert" where galaxies are sparse, and nothingness reigns. Discover its ...

Variations in galaxy density and background radiation are accounted for by Big Bang physics, but this area, in the direction of the constellation Eridanus, is too vast and too empty to fit the ...

The astronomers were able to see the void in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus first from measurements of the number of galaxies and then by comparing those results to the region's ...

Astronomers Discover Huge Void This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to ...

A giant hole in the universe was found by University of Minnesota astronomers using the NASA Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite. The hole is about one billion light-years across ...

Boötes is the 13th largest constellation in the night sky and contains one of the brightest stars in the sky, Arcturus. Boötes is an ancient Greek word that roughly translates as the ox-driver ...

The system's star, TOI 451, also known as CD-38 1467, is located in the constellation Eridanus, about 400 light-years away. It has 95% of our sun's mass, but it is 12% smaller, slightly colder and ...