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Inside the Giant Void there are 17 galaxy clusters, concentrated in a spherically shaped region 50 Mpc in diameter. Studies of the motion of these clusters show that they have no interaction to each other, meaning the density of the clusters is very low and results in weak gravitational interaction. The void's location in the sky is close to the Boötes Void.
In a series of papers published between 2004 and 2006, cosmologist and theoretical physicist Laura Mersini-Houghton presented a theory that the universe arose from a multiverse, and made a series of testable predictions which included the existence of the Giant Void.