A strange empty hole has been found in the universe
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.
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A strange empty hole has been found in the universe
Empty Space ping!...................
Probably the drain hole...........
I thought they were going to say it is The White House.....
They found the source of the liberal agenda?
Still not as big as Hillary’s sense of entitlement.
Structure implies 'built'.
What part of Bill’s anatomy was hooked to that leash?
Universal cooling!
We are in for it now.
Does a huge empty space actually qualify as an “object”?
It’s probably God’s “workshop”...
All right, now that I’m a donating noobie member, I demand that someone translate this into English for me. What is a void and how does it have any matter. And how could a void have any size? ...Head hurts
Detroitus ?
It’s a hole in space.............
White flight to the suburbs?
It used to the be the loaction of the “Space Communists” but they ran out of money. So they started borrowing money from themselves, but, they divided by zero too many time on their quantum cvomputer. And so when calculating their debt it caused space time to warp so much that it sucked in all the matter that was supposed to be there...
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