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A Hole In The Universe
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.
Sauce: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11550868/Giant-mysterious-empty-hole-found-in-universe.html
TheRuggedProfessorNeckbeard
Galactus ate all the matter in that region
Violetsdyed
spcmgmt
God's house.
cousteau
The red thing is the milky way?
overcastdaze
Biggest hole in space/ OP's mom joke.
JarJarDrinks
It is where our universe is touching another universe.
Kickback
so its the mexico Universe? ewww
ColonelJessep
found the Texan
HitlerEatingABanana
Let's ask the black science man and god what they think about it
cousteau
"Black science man and god"? You mean Morgan Freeman?
IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur
whats with the huge band of red though?
cousteau
My bet is milky way.
IShouldBeStudyingRightNowInsteadOfBrowsingImgur
the whole thing is the universe so i doubt it would show up that big, unless there is some distortion from being so close. IDK
cousteau
Yeah, doesn't sound right, but it's the only explanation I can think of right now.