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On 9/3/07, Dennis Fischer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A giant hole in the Universe is devoid of
> galaxies, stars and even lacks dark matter, astronomers said on Thursday.
> The team at the University of Minnesota said the void is nearly a
> billion light-years across and they have no idea why it is there.
> "Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even
> expected to find one this size," said astronomy professor Lawrence Rudnick.
> Writing in the Astrophysical Journal, Rudnick and colleagues Shea Brown
> and Liliya Williams said they were examining a cold spot using the Wilkinson
> Microwave Anisotropy Probe satellite, and found the giant hole.
> "We already knew there was something different about this spot in the
> sky," Rudnick said. The region stood out as being colder in a survey of the
> Cosmic Microwave Background -- the faint radio buzz left over from the Big
> Bang that gave birth to the Universe.
> "What we've found is not normal, based on either observational studies
> or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the Universe,"
> Williams said in a statement.
> The astronomers said the region even appeared to lack dark matter, which
> cannot be seen directly but is usually detected by measuring gravitational
> forces.
> The void is in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, southwest
> of Orion.
> The researchers have posted images on the Internet at
> www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/graphics.shtml.
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Ed
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