intergalactic space

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Noun1.intergalactic space - the space between galaxies; "the Milky Way travels through intergalactic space"
outer space, space - any location outside the Earth's atmosphere; "the astronauts walked in outer space without a tether"; "the first major milestone in space exploration was in 1957, when the USSR's Sputnik 1 orbited the Earth"
region, part - the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
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Players are transported to an intergalactic void to put their reflexes to the test.
The Milky Way's black hole, a monster with a mass four million times that of the Sun, feeds on some of its neighbours and thrusts others out into the intergalactic void.
These are stars moving so fast, upwards of several hundred kilometers per second, that they will escape the Milky Way's gravity to forever roam the intergalactic void. Their discovery had to wait for very efficient surveys; only about one in 100 million Milky Way stars is going at such a clip.