Artist's conception of the Giant Void and the filaments and walls that surround it. The internal clusters can also be appreciated (credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi).
The Giant Void (also known as the Giant Void in NGH, Canes Venatici Supervoid, and AR-Lp 36) is an extremely large region of space with an underdensity of galaxies and located in the
WMAP cold spot is dwarfed by this void, although the Giant Void does not correspond to any significant cooling to the cosmic microwave background
.
Inside this vast void there are 17
gravitational interaction.[1] The void's location in the sky is close to the Boötes Void
.
In a series of papers published between 2004 and 2006, cosmologist and theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton presented a theory that the universe arose from a multiverse, and made a series of testable predictions which included the existence of the Giant Void.[3][4]
