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Mysterious 'supervoid' in space is largest object ever discovered, scientists claim
www.telegraph.co.u ^ | 7:09PM BST 20 Apr 2015 | By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor

Posted on 04/20/2015 1:25:31 PM PDT by Red Badger

A supervoid has been discovered in the universe which is too big to fit into current models

Astronomers have discovered a curious empty section of space which is missing around 10,000 galaxies.

The ‘supervoid’, which is 1.8 billion light-years across, is the largest known structure ever discovered in the universe but scientists are baffled about what it is and why it is so barren.

It sits in a region of space which is much colder than other parts of the universe and although it is not a vacuum, it seems to have around 20 per cent less matter than other regions.

Although the Big Bang theory allows for areas that are cooler and hotter, the size of the void does not fit with predicted models. Simply put, it is too big to exist.

István Szapudi, of University of Hawaii at Manoa, described the object as possibly “the largest individual structure ever identified by humanity”.

It was picked up using Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) telescope located on Haleakala, Maui, and Nasa’s Wide Field Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite.

The latest study suggests that the ‘supervoid’ may be draining energy from light travelling through, which is why the area around it is so cold.

Getting through such a big hole takes hundreds of millions of years, even at the speed of light, and photons of light slow down as they cross because the universe – and therefore the void - is continually expanding.

However the scientists claim that the void can only account for around 10 per cent the temperature drop in the cold spot.

“It just pushed the explanation one layer deeper,” said Dr Roberto Trotta, a cosmologist at Imperial College London.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Education; Outdoors; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; blackhole; space; stringtheory; supervoid; xplanets
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To: Red Badger

Looks like a belly button
41 posted on 04/20/2015 1:51:52 PM PDT by slimjim12
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To: Red Badger

“A strange empty hole has been found in the universe.”
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Sounds like the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.


42 posted on 04/20/2015 1:53:56 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Hitlery Rotten Clinton should be in a federal prison, NOT in the Oval Office.)
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To: rjsimmon

No.


43 posted on 04/20/2015 1:55:09 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: WayneS

It does to astronomers.


44 posted on 04/20/2015 1:56:13 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: ctdonath2

Personally, I wonder this: If all races develop machine intelligence to the point that AI becomes hyperintelligent and continuously improving, wouldn’t we see many competing hyperintelligent AIs? Or is that what God is — a group of AI’s that merged?

If super-AI is inevitable, where are previous-civilization’s copies of same?


45 posted on 04/20/2015 1:58:30 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The FCC takeover of the internet will quickly becoI me a means to censorship of dissent.)
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To: MrB

No. You define your home by physical rooms, but rooms are essentially empty spaces with the absence of walls. You don’t define your home by the walls that specify the location of the room.


46 posted on 04/20/2015 2:00:57 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: epluribus_2
KHAN!!!

Too puny and insignificant. The Daleks have the means and the will however.

47 posted on 04/20/2015 2:01:11 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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To: Red Badger

So, that’s where HELL is located.


48 posted on 04/20/2015 2:01:24 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Publius
see the 'corbomite device', from the original series as the saving plot device from this episode:

The Deadly Years
49 posted on 04/20/2015 2:04:46 PM PDT by wafflehouse (RE-ELECT NO ONE !)
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To: Red Badger

50 posted on 04/20/2015 2:04:57 PM PDT by MaxMax (Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS, Make them talk!)
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To: Red Badger; SunkenCiv

I feel a strange disturbance in the force . . .


51 posted on 04/20/2015 2:05:28 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Red Badger

I immediately thought of a Far Side cartoon showing a guy kneeling and worshipping a square shape labeled “nothing” while another guy looked on in confusion, asking “Is nothing sacred?”...


52 posted on 04/20/2015 2:05:36 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Red Badger
It's the Nothing!!!


53 posted on 04/20/2015 2:06:54 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Red Badger

or... there is something, in space, between earth the spot.. blocking the galaxies


54 posted on 04/20/2015 2:07:58 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Red Badger

No problem mon...the Super Void has been designated as the first
Galactic Heritage Zone in the umiverse by the United Nations just last week.

The objective is to keep the void free from the oppressive genocidal nature raping grasp of the western European culture.

By acclaimation the first two Super-Duper Hole trustees have been named; Obama and Al Gore.


55 posted on 04/20/2015 2:09:04 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools wnho cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Red Badger

it is not QUITE empty.

that’s where BHO is hiding his birth certificate


56 posted on 04/20/2015 2:09:45 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Another brilliantl- intelligent comment sent thru an amazingly-stupid spell checker)
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To: slimjim12

It looks like yin and yang.


57 posted on 04/20/2015 2:10:09 PM PDT by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwel)
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To: Red Badger

Where would one point one’s telescope...the Bible speaks of an “empty place in the North sky” Is the “void” in the general direction that the Bible speaks the “empty place”?


58 posted on 04/20/2015 2:11:01 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (If Hitler, Nazi, OR...McCarthy are mentioned in an argument, then the argument is over!)
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To: Red Badger
although it is not a vacuum, it seems to have around 20 per cent less matter than other regions.

Sounds close enough to normal to me, I mean give or take 20% seems not to far out of the ballpark........Just saying.

Are there regions with 20% more matter (give or take) than the average?

59 posted on 04/20/2015 2:13:45 PM PDT by The Cajun (Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert....Nuff said.)
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To: tet68
Universal cooling! We are in for it now.


60 posted on 04/20/2015 2:17:22 PM PDT by frithguild (The warmth and goodness of Gaia is a nuclear reactor in the Earth's core that burns Thorium)
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