If there’s intelligent life anywhere in the inner half of that thing, they may not know that there’s much of a Universe out there unless they’re to the point where they have some kind of foldspace travel.
I wonder what it looks like currently, since the view we have is over a billion years old.
If there’s intelligent life there, can you imagine they would be even slightly interested in the piece of lint they see from there that we call the Milky Way?
Even if they were curious and pointed a telescope in our direction, it will be a billion years from now before we make any interesting radio noises for them to listen to.
Crazy stuff.