[HcMkOKiz]

As*tro*no*mers say they’ve ap*par*ently found a gi*ant hole in the un*iverse—a prac*tic*ally emp*ty zone, called a void, whose gap*ing size is hard to ex*plain.

While past stud*ies had re*vealed oth*er voids, this one dwarfs them all, re*search*ers say, be*ing nearly a bil*lion light-years across. A light-year is the dis*tance light trav*els in a year, some six tril*lion miles or nine tril*lion km. There is almost nothing in that space, not even dark matter...

links: http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070823_void.htm
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=5916

why my quotation is all messed up, before submitting it, it looks fine.

[Justlovemy]

That's how E.T go from place to place.

[Nigeopire]

why my quotation is all messed up, before submitting it, it looks fine.

Broken into syllables? [rofl]

[stadiaKab]

Now there was me thinking this was going to be a thread about Paris Hilton,..
tz tz tz

[Avoireeideree]

Now there was me thinking this was going to be a thread about Paris Hilton,..
tz tz tz

This ones slightly bigger.

[HcMkOKiz]

I wonder if emptyness can also expand.. Or should I see it as a bubble of air in a bowl of custard for explample?

[comprar-espana]

When I first heard that, I thought maybe someone left their lens cap on when they were looking through their telescope

[fil_nurser]

I liked the UserFriendly take on this,

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070826

[HcMkOKiz]

I liked the UserFriendly take on this,

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070826

LOL, if you read the first post, your imagination came out to the same as the user friendly link you posted

[draigenia]

This just makes me giggle. We think we know the nature of the universe when we can't even get to a neighboring planet. We think we know the origin of how things began and we can't even see or chart out the entire universe. We don't even know if there's life on other worlds (intelligent life).

The big gaping hole found in the universe is most likely one of many or it could be the only one. We're so small yet we continue to think our brains are so big and we know everything.

[EspanaCamsInfo]

We're so small yet we continue to think our brains are so big and we know everything.

Not really.

[AntonioMQ]

Not really.

Thanks for proving his point.

[Sleflanna]

Maybe it's not void of matter, it could be that we just don't have the equipment or knowledge (at the moment) to detect what's there!?

[rhybrisee]

Anyone else think of Goatse when they first read the title....?[help]

[Slchtjgb]

This just makes me giggle. We think we know the nature of the universe when we can't even get to a neighboring planet. We think we know the origin of how things began and we can't even see or chart out the entire universe. We don't even know if there's life on other worlds (intelligent life).

The big gaping hole found in the universe is most likely one of many or it could be the only one. We're so small yet we continue to think our brains are so big and we know everything.

agreed

theres probably some aliens next to it that use it as a big garbage dump and think it's completely normal, infact it's probably their version of a landfill site. We know not alot tbh

[HcMkOKiz]

Anyone else think of Goatse when they first read the title....?[help]

[shocked]

You are absolutely terable !

[Neitteloxesia]

Anyone else think of Goatse when they first read the title....?[help]

To tell you the truth I find your imagination a bit stretching the issue . . .

[MexicoCity]

To tell you the truth I find your imagination a bit stretching the issue . . .

Hey...no need to rip him open

[AlexClips]

I agree with dcuk the most. But chris0288 has a nice idea too....[rofl]

Could be a massive black hole that connects to another dimension. And since we reside in the 4th dimension (but we can't "see" time), this can be a hole to the 5th dimension. Thus we see nothing.

But then again it is so far away, and thus happened so long ago, near the time of the origin if the Big Bang....matter of fact it CAN be the original spot of the Big Bang !

Now my head is gonna implode...

[kenowinnumberss]

Discovered by scholars at my University. [thumbup][thumbup][thumbup]