Looks like a belly button
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 ...
“A strange empty hole has been found in the universe.”
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Sounds like the resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
No.
It does to astronomers.
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?
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.
Too puny and insignificant. The Daleks have the means and the will however.
So, that’s where HELL is located.
I feel a strange disturbance in the force . . .
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?”...
or... there is something, in space, between earth the spot.. blocking the galaxies
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.
it is not QUITE empty.
that’s where BHO is hiding his birth certificate
It looks like yin and yang.
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”?
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?
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