A team of researchers says the Milky Way resides in one of the observable universe’s darkest regions, but some experts aren't so sure. Don’t panic. Cosmic voids are actually all around us. Imagine an especially hole-y block of Swiss cheese, and you have a pretty good visual for the leading theory for the structure of the universe. Voids, vast expanses of nearly empty space, account for about 80 pe
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