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Giant Structure Found Hidden In the Zone of Avoidance (Behind the Milky Way)

2026-05-02 Science & Technology
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Anton Petrov
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about discoveries from the Zone of Avoidance in the Milky Way Links: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.09339 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.07084 https://www.sarao.ac.za/news/vela-the-true-scale-of-a-hidden-giant-structure-revealed/ Great debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcKOV7IwlNc Other videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAS-IoKLddU https://youtu.be/kL9HkRmCVbA https://youtu.be/UVRilVjgTV0 #milkyway #zoneofavoidance #science 0:00 Zone of Avoidance and why it's hard to see thru it 3:40 So many hidden structures! 4:35 How to see through it 5:30 New study and what was used 6:20 Vela supercluster and what it is 8:00 Major influence on our galaxy 9:00 Implications and possible explanations 10:30 Unanswered questions and conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@geoffreyhhill 2026-05-03

I just survived brain surgery and first video I’ve watched is this one. I can always count on Anton calling me wonderful person 😀

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@AIPartyTime 2026-05-02

last time i was this early, the Great attractor was just the Moderately Charismatic attractor.

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@johnisailofski7140 2026-05-02

So in about 100 million years we can view the zone of avoidance directly. A short wait! I’ll be an elderly grandfather by then…

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@Jerry.Cornelius 2026-05-02

We only need to wait 112 million years until the sun is on the other side of the galaxy and we will be able to see the rest of the universe.

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@HowShouldIKnow6543 2026-05-01

So maybe the Great Attractor is a group of superclusters, not a single mass.....

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@jrespins 2026-05-02

Hello anton, i just wanted to say thank you for all your work. Space is one of my favorite things to think and learn about and as such i have come to love your channel and have been watching it for years. I appreciate your effort to bring us recent revelations in this field as well as breaking it down. I know you always let us know that we are wonderful people.. And i just wanted to take this moment to tell you that we feel the same about you. Much love bruv. You truly are a wonderful person. ❤

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@spartan.u.304 2026-05-02

Hey it's just 115 million years to complete just half a galactic year.

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@rolandblock2530 2026-05-02

Sounds like living in Seattle when the fog and clouds clear after 9 months and you’re like, “Oh crap there’s a mountain there!”

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@florisdejong4661 2026-05-03

It's the damnedest thing that a bunch of critters on some little planet can know so much about all this, moreover so because, on a cosmological timescale, it was just yesterday that we started walking upright.

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@arielshpitzer 2026-05-03

My daily dose of "Anton blows my brain"...

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