The Ladder of Scale · structure
KBC Void (Local Hole)
Void · 2 billion ly
- Within
- —
- Recognised
- 2013
- Population
- a 20 % underdensity
- Size (ly)
- 2000000000
- Kind
- Void
Notes
The claim that the Milky Way sits near the centre of a region emptier than average by about a fifth, which if true would bias every local measurement of the expansion rate — one proposed way out of the Hubble tension.
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