“Dark energy, if it keeps going, will start pulling stuff apart that we would have otherwise thought would remain together,” he said. Even the biggest things in the universe, it turns out, are no ...

this is the biggest thing in the Universe'," says Jon Hakkila, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Their concern was justified. Both Hakkila and Lopez ...

The Boötes Void; The Biggest, Emptiest Thing in the Universe Posted: May 16, 2025 | Last updated: May 16, 2025 Explore the Boötes Void, the universe's vast "desert" where galaxies are sparse ...

In CUriosity, experts across the CU Boulder campus answer pressing questions about humans, our planet and the universe beyond. Previously, astrophysicist Jeremy Darling tackled: “What is the biggest ...

why there was any matter around to form complicated things in the first place. The interestingness of the world around us is all the more puzzling when you look at the universe on the largest ...

“The first thing we know about the universe is that it’s really, really big,” says cosmologist Michael Turner, who has been contemplating this reality for more than four decades now.

Discovered in 2013, it spans 10 billion light years – more than one-10th the size of the visible Universe. "We calculated it and then realised, 'Uh oh, this is the biggest thing in the Universe ...