Earth may be at the centre of a huge void

New theory could explain why the Universe expands faster in our region of space

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It's human to feel alarmed by the sheer emptiness of space.

Now, astronomers from the University of Portsmouth suggest this unsettling vastness may be worse than we thought, claiming that our entire Milky Way sits inside a mysterious giant hole. This void, they believe, may cause the cosmos to expand more quickly in our local environment than in other parts of the Universe.