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Astronomers Find Huge Hole in Universe

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the no-it's-not-rosie-o'donnell dept.

realwx writes "Astronomers are surprised by a recent discovery of a space hole that is nearly a billion light years across. "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.""

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  1. More info here by Mr+Europe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now this is *big* news ! The scientific world is waiting for good explanations.

    More info here (with pictures..)
    http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/index.shtml

    1. Re:More info here by Randomly · · Score: 5, Informative

      Here's a link to the original paper:

      http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0704/0704.0 908v2.pdf

  2. Re:Maybe by osu-neko · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, it's completely wrong.

    Every point in the universe today is where the Big Bang occurred. You can see it right now. Just look around you.

    Understand that space itself expanded from the starting point. All points of space in the universe today where infinitely closer together 13.7 billion years ago. The Big Bang did not expand outward into a mostly empty universe. The Big Bang occurred in a universe that was entirely full of extremely dense matter. As space expanded, the matter became less packed. You get the idea...

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  3. Re:Repeat after me ... by shawn(at)fsu · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually the article said it was devoid of "dark matter", they freely admit they have no idea what this void is.

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