Could The Mysterious Cold Spot In Space Really Originate From A Collision With A Parallel Universe?
1 min readJun 4, 2017
Scientists have long tried to explain the origin of a mysterious, large and anomalously cold region of the sky. In 2015, they came close to figuring it out as a study showed it to be a “supervoid” in which the density of galaxies is much lower than it is in the rest of the universe.
However, other studies haven’t managed to replicate the result.
Now new research led by Durham University, submitted for publication in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests the supervoid theory doesn’t hold up. Intriguingly, that leaves open a pretty wild possibility — the cold spot might be the evidence of a collision with a parallel universe. But before you get too excited, let’s look at how likely that would actually be…
