In 2007, a group of American scientists found a massive hole spanning one billion light years in the Eridanus constellation. (One light year is about six trillion miles.) The area lacked signs of cosmic matter like stars, planets, galaxies or clouds of dust. Researchers couldn’t even find dark matter. And there were no indications of black holes that could have sucked up the matter that used to be there. Though other holes in the universe have been found before, they were just 1/1,000th the size of this supervoid. How this giant gap came to be and why it’s so colossal is totally unknown.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:38:58 +0000
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