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Article: `Bubble theory' may alter science's view of universe
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 19, 1986
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. A new map of a section of the sky supports the
theory that stars and galaxies rest on giant "bubbles" and could
alter how scientists view the large-scale structure of the universe,
according to a team of Harvard University researchers.
"In the past, people primarily thought galaxies were distributed
{in the universe} in clusters and filaments," said astronomer John
Huchra of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "It
doesn't look like that's right."
"It looks like galaxies are distributed on the surface of
bubbles," he said. "If we're right, these ...