Astronomers conclude a cold region in the constellationEridanus is caused by a hole in the universe nearly
one billion light-years across.
The universe has a huge hole in it that dwarfs anything else of its kind. The discovery caught astronomers by surprise.
The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it's also strangely empty of the mysterious "dark matter" that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on this scale.
Astronomers don't know why the hole is there.
"Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size," said researcher Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota.
Rudnick's colleague Liliya R. Williams also had not anticipated this finding.
"What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the universe," said Williams, also of the University of Minnesota.
The finding will be detailed in the Astrophysical Journal.
Full story at Space.comalso at Astronomy.com
8 comments:
Isn't it just amazing!
How strange....... Maybe they've found Heaven... [rotflmao]
cyberkitten, you know I was thinking all kinds of smartass thoughts. Like maybe they found God's home, or maybe hell...LOL!
Maybe it's like Neverending Story and the "nothing" is coming to eat us all up into oblivion?
Hey, looks like the found that intelligent designer thingy. Cause, just like intelligent design theory, it exists but doesn't have any substance.
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Hey, looks like the found that intelligent designer thingy. Cause, just like intelligent design theory, it exists but doesn't have any substance.
Drumroll and high hat...ta da! LOL!
Good one!
WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!
The end of times is coming to get us.
Maybe it's like on Stargate...a gateway to another universe. The universe is quite awesome and horrible at the same time.
Very interesting, and - lol - I like your "the nothing" reference from the never-ending story!
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