The Universe's Loneliest Galaxy Discovered
TL;DR
MCG+01-02-015 is the loneliest galaxy in the Universe, located in a particularly sparse, underdense "void" region. Our best telescopes identify no other substantial galaxies within ~100 million light-years. Despite the visual appearance of other galaxies near MCG+01-02-015, none of these galaxies are actually located in the same region of space. This isolated perspective would have made discovering our cosmic origins far more challenging.
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