Friday, August 24, 2007

Huge Hole Found in the Universe

Here's the story.
The hole is nearly a billion light-years across. It is not a black hole, which is a small sphere of densely packed matter. Rather, this one is mostly devoid of stars, gas and other normal matter, and it's also strangely empty of the mysterious "dark matter" that permeates the cosmos. Other space voids have been found before, but nothing on this scale.
The mysteries never cease, do they? :-)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Pshaw! Astrophysics are for wimps.