WASHINGTON - American astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That’s got them scratching their heads about what’s just not there
The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That’s an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, a University of Minnesota team
Holes in the universe probably occur when the gravity from areas with bigger mass pull matter from less dense areas, Tully said. After 13 billion years "they are losing out in the battle to where there are larger concentrations of matter," he said.
This hole is only about 2 million light years away. Not too far if you ask me..
All you sci-fi geeks...what's your take on this? It sounds pretty serious..
I think that they they have an empty patch, neraby, which is 2 million light years away
This whole (as he article says) is 5 - 10 billions light years away.
Neverthless, amazing observation, I must say. That big question which sceintist always asked "why the universe is so unifor, or why does it look the same, where ever we look, goes down the drain.
Cant think of any explanation myself. Will wait for others to jump in
I think that they they have an empty patch, neraby, which is 2 million light years away
This whole (as he article says) is 5 - 10 billions light years away.
Neverthless, amazing observation, I must say. That big question which sceintist always asked "why the universe is so unifor, or why does it look the same, where ever we look, goes down the drain.
Cant think of any explanation myself. Will wait for others to jump in
Are you talking about THIS HOLE? The universe should be uniform, what's amazing is what they found "a hole of nothing". What could it be that's missing? There's no interstellar medium and no nearby black holes. It's full of nothing and it's HUGEEE!!
Are you talking about THIS HOLE? The universe should be uniform, what's amazing is what they found "a hole of nothing". What could it be that's missing? There's no interstellar medium and no nearby black holes. It's full of nothing and it's HUGEEE!!
Yes it was a typo. I wanted to say THIS HOLE (not this whole). That observation of empty space is mind bogling
It depends upon what is your defination of SuperNatural. If it means un-explainable, then yes maybe it is.
See, if there was an explosion happened in the dead center of that "hole" which pushed all the matter away from it, then there should be some gama radiation left in that area which could be observed by scientists. There is none
If there is a balck hole sitting in the dead center, pulling the matter into itself, then there should be X-rays that could be detected.
One thing the article did not mention was the temperature of that empty space. If it is anything above 0 K then there is something there (I am sure that they did check for the temp, somehow)
I should find out more about that. Good topic to discuss