A huge hole found in the universe.

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A huge hole found in the universe.

Post #1by Fightspit » 25.08.2007, 10:07

University of Minnesota astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious, unseen "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.


http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/news_detail ... 56&page=NS

Here two pdf files:
http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/ ... 0908v2.pdf
and one with pictures
http://www.ftpi.umn.edu/dsu07/talks/Col ... fM_DSU.pdf
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Post #2by Bluespace » 25.08.2007, 16:14

Now everyone is behind dark matter and somehow they succeed in linking dark matters into every news, meantime i wonder where the dark energy has gone :wink:

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Post #3by LordFerret » 26.08.2007, 06:28

From the article Fightspit posted...
http://www1.umn.edu/umnnews/news_details.php?release=070823_3456&page=NS
...there are additional images (graphics) of the hole, the address not made linkable...
http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/graphics.shtml

Very interesting.

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Post #4by Hunter Parasite » 07.09.2007, 21:04

Reminds me of the void from the academy novels...

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Post #5by Fenerit » 08.09.2007, 02:26

Mine, the "dark energy" the "dark matter" resemble the flogist theory; even here the energy was negative.
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Post #6by Reiko » 15.10.2007, 17:47

Maybe the devil lives in that hole! 8O

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Post #7by BobHegwood » 15.10.2007, 18:24

If I understand that article and the photographs correctly, they just show
that a region in space is not reflecting any data for a specific wavelength
in space. Is this correct? In other words, can't there be a lot of SOMETHING
there that's just not visible in the particular wavelength they were using?

Just trying to understand here.

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