Saturday, August 25, 2007

Billions and Billions...

If you're looking for something to make your head hurt, contemplate a 1 billion light year wide hole in the universe:
Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing.

The late night comedians will have a field day with this one...

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