Partially dimmed x-rays (dips in graph) from a flaring blazar (right) reveal two filaments of hot, diffuse matter in
the vast spaces between galaxies.
Not exact matches
You have to ask yourself how all that
vast apparent
space, billions of light - years
between galaxies, is fill up, is a plenum.
After a half - century - long hunt, astronomers think they have finally detected rogue star clusters that roam the
vast dark
spaces between galaxies.
Presumably, most of an FRB's dispersion comes from interactions with the tenuous plasma of the intergalactic medium, a
vast cosmic web that stretches through the mostly empty
space between galaxies.
According to theory, the bulk of the matter in the universe consists of large, dark filaments of gas in the
vast empty
space between galaxy clusters.
In about 100 billion years, as future humans are enjoying an extended stay near Proxima Centauri, some physicists like Starkman believe that dark energy will drastically stretch out the
vast amounts of empty
space between the Milky Way and other
galaxies, creating an impassable gulf
between them.
The
vast volume of
space probed by such a
galaxy survey will provide a measure of the relationship
between the amount of mass and the amount of radiation emitted by
galaxies throughout the Universe.