The findings confirm the results of a previous study based on observations taken in 2013. That previous study showed that Earth's galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of a so-called cosmic void. These ...

The tension comes from two types of measurements. One approach looks far back in time, using the cosmic microwave background—the faint light left over from the Big Bang.

The "Hubble tension," one of the most frustrating and lingering problems in science, could be solved if Earth and the Milky Way sit in a 2 billion light-year wide low-density void.

But most surveys haven’t looked at a wide enough region of the sky to be able to find such a void relatively close to Earth. One study that claimed to have discovered one in 2007 was later disputed.

Cosmic conflict continues: new data fuel the Hubble tension debate Banik is also analysing supernovae data to explore whether the Hubble tension disappears at greater distances. “We are testing if the ...

It is the largest cosmic void ever observed — about seven times larger than the average void, with a radius of about 1 billion light-years, according to the study. You may like ...

The cosmic void that contains the Milky Way's is dubbed the Keenan, Barger and Cowie (KBC) void, after the three astronomers who identified it in the 2013 study.