In 1981, while conducting a redshift survey of the distribution of galaxies, astronomers spotted something (or nothing) that they weren't expecting. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

"[W]e discovered that the redshift distributions in each of the three northern fields showed an identical 6,000 [kilometers per second] gap. Because these fields were separated by angles of ~35°, this suggested the existence of a large void in the galaxy distribution of at least comparable angular diameter," the team wrote in a paper in 1987 , adding, "The low density of this region is of high statistical significance and does not appear easily reconcilable with any of the popular models for the growth structure in the universe."

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