The Milky Way is being “pushed” through space by a cosmic dead zone that lurks half a billion light years from Earth. Located on the far side of the constellation of Lacerta, the vast patch of nothingness appears to have a striking dearth of galaxies compared to the rest of its cosmic neighborhood. The paucity of stars, planets and other matter in the region may explain as much as half of the force that propels our home galaxy through the heavens at a speed of two million kilometers per hour.
Milky Way being pushed through space by cosmic dead zone
