Northern Local Supervoid
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The Northern Local Supervoid is a region of space devoid of rich clusters of galaxies, known as a void. It is located between the Local, Coma and Hercules superclusters. It contains a few small galaxy systems and galaxy clusters but is mostly empty. The faint galaxies within this void divide the region into smaller voids, which are 3–10 times smaller than the supervoid. The galaxies in this supervoid are primarily spirals.[1]
The void's center is located 61 megaparsecs away and it is 104 megaparsecs in diameter across its narrowest width.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Lindner, U. et al. (September 1995). "The structure of supervoids. I. Void hierarchy in the Northern Local Supervoid". Astronomy and Astrophysics 301: 329. arXiv:astro-ph/9503044. Bibcode 1995A&A...301..329L.
- ^ Einasto, M; Einasto, J.; Tago, E.; Dalton, G. B.; Andernach, H. (1994-07-15). "The Structure of the Universe Traced by Rich Clusters of Galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 269: 301. Bibcode 1994MNRAS.269..301E
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