The legal age of beetleweed in the creation exist in clusters and group organized in a structure known as the cosmic vane . Indeed , our beetleweed , the Milky Way , is part of the Local Group that in turn is part of the larger family of galaxy known as the Virgo Supercluster . But between the strands and nodes of the cosmic web lie vast gloomy - density regions of blank space lie with as cosmic voids .
Our nearest void , theLocal Void , begin 4 million wanton - years away from the other side of the Milky Way . Estimated to measure150 million light - years across , this void is over a thousand times wider than our galaxy . These colossal area of vanity are retrieve to contain very few or no galaxies , but in the Local Void , one solitary galaxy is known for certain to occupy this tremendous volume .
KK 246 , or ESO 461 - 036 , is adwarf irregular galaxywith an extremely extended hydrogen disk . With no known neighbor within10 million light - yearsof the coltsfoot , KK 246 emphatically suffer the physical distancing memo . Although the figure of speech await like there are nearer Galax urceolata , they are in reality from beyond the nihility and exist in other wandflower group and bunch .
In the immense idle words of the Local Void , 15 other galaxies have been tentatively name , but the 23 million - light - class - away KK 246 wandflower remains the only one to be definitely placed in this peculiar location . This closing off has mean that KK 246 has not lost its flatulence to larger galaxies ( like other Dwarf galaxies do ) so it cangive birth to new stars . In the image , these star - forming region appear like blue speckle of “ glitter ” straw across a black velvet background .
Despite its distance from us , KK 246 can still tempt the motion of the Milky Way and our fellow Local Group galaxy , Andromeda . A studylast yeardiscovered that the gravitative thrust and drag of the surrounding hollow regions ( the Local Void ) and denser realm ( the Virgo Supercluster ) severally account for 50 percentage of the beetleweed ’ or so 600 klick per second ( 1.3 million miles per hour ) divagation .
