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 kiribird2 rated 14 months ago- "One morning I was a little bored, and said, 'why don't I look in the direction of the WMAP cold spot'," says Rudnick.
Nabbed off Furball
The team was in for a surprise, little or no radio sources in a volume that is about 280 megaparsecs
or nearly a billion li...
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- furie1335 rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "Biggest void in space is 1 billion light years across"
- kiribird2 rated 14 months ago
- "One morning I was a little bored, and said, 'why don't I look in the direction of the WMAP cold spot'," says Rudnick.
Nabbed off Furball
The team was in for a surprise, little or no radio sources in a volume that is about 280 megaparsecs
or nearly a billion light years in diameter.
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- MJ-Brutus rated 14 months ago
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The biggest known hole in the universe has left a cold-spot in the cosmic microwave radiation
(Illustration: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA)
From the page: "Radio astronomers have found the biggest hole ever seen in the universe. The void, which is nearly a billion light years across, is empty of both normal matter and dark matter. The finding challenges theories of large-scale structure formation in the universe."
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