OK.. this has absolutely nothing to do with technology or gadgets or consumer electronics, but hell.. I thought it was an interesting story nevertheless. Astronomers have discovered a giant hole in the Universe that’s completely devoid of galaxies, stars, or even dark matter. The empty space in space (ha.. like that one?) was discovered by a team at the University of Minnesota and apparently measures a billion light years across.

The discovery was made after Lawrence Rudnick, Shea Brown, and Liliya Williams were examining a cold spot uncovered by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe Satellite. Astronomers already knew the area had a different property to it (being colder than the rest)  thanks to a survey of the Cosmic Microwave Background – the faint radio buzz supposedly left behind by the Big Bang.

It’ll be interesting to see if scientists and astronomers can explain this patch of nothingness – so much nothingness that supposedly dark matter doesn’t even exist. Dark matter cannot be seen directly but is usually inferred by measuring gravitational forces in the area.

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