Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe, and if you think about it too long you'll be terrified and puzzled.The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no vacuous black holes, not even bits of mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing (or 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness if you really want to be technical).
That must be where all my socks go.
Although astronomers have known for years that there are patches in the universe where literally nothing exists, they had never found one so massive. The team of Minnesota astronomers discovered a void 1,000 times the volume of what they had expected to see.
That must be where all my socks go.
Although astronomers have known for years that there are patches in the universe where literally nothing exists, they had never found one so massive. The team of Minnesota astronomers discovered a void 1,000 times the volume of what they had expected to see.
Through observations of cosmic microwave background radiation and radio astronomy, the scientists identified a spot empty of matter.
Holes in the universe probably occur when the gravity from areas with bigger mass pull matter from less dense areas, but that doesn't make me feel better that besides the emptiness of space, there's void empty of space. Damn, astrophysics fucks with me.
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