Astronomers puzzled by cosmic black hole (patches in the universe where nobody's home)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 8/23/07 | Seth Borenstein - ap

[Grizzled Bear]

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.

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Wow! A cosmic representation of what happens when socialists take over!

[Blowtorch]

How about it is caused by Global Warming!

I would take that phrase any day, repeatedly, and for years to come over the most over-used and non-clever post that I won't even mention again. Thank you.

[Polynikes]

“That’s original. There’s at least one of these “it’s Bush’s fault” on every thread now, for the last 3 years and it’s really, really, really old. Come up with something new if you bother posting.”

Ok then “Its Cheney’s fault” :)

[onedoug]

...Mythical big bang....

Obviously barring inflation then, what's your hypothesis?

I like learning.

[Sterlis]

Like something out of The Farside - “The Big Bang” overshadowing it’s lesser known twin “The Big Nothing”

[2111USMC]

Rove, you magnificent bas...!

[Fido969]

Galaxies are known to be arranged in a “bubble” pattern - string of mater, starts and galaxies surrounding bubbles of empty space. This is not a new idea.

[Sols]

An empty area of the universe doesn’t defy physics at all. Otherwise it wouldn’t exist, you see.

[Charles Martel]

The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter.

Heh... they left the lens cap on. How embarrassing!

[NormsRevenge]

This is not a new idea.
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That is true, this has been known for many years and remains a contentious area of discussion.

If folks click on the keyword ‘black holes’, FR has a few earlier threads on the topic.

[fso301]

He used to enjoy talking about ‘nothing’ and that there still has to be something. He probably is working in some sort of scientific field.

Actually their is study into nothingness and it pertains to what may have been prior to the big bang. In my extremely limited understanding, "nothing" is thought to be an unstable state in which the big bang could have arisen from.

[DBrow]

Either a cloaking device or a vast advanced civilization where they al use Dyson spheres.

[txzman]

“The more we come to know, the more we should realize that we know very little about the universe.”

That also goes for every other aspect of creation.

[Walkingfeather]

hmmm. let me work out the math.... hmmm carry the 2 ... er.. um ... I guess so?

[TheDon]

Hmmmm... full of dark matter and energy?

[TASMANIANRED]

It’s the place to go when you want to get away from it all.

[zencat]

All I see is a committee of Democrats working on a subsidy for this.

[Graybeard58]

Ok then “Its Cheney’s fault” :)

I've got big shoulders....... It's my fault.

[Dick Vomer]

That's original. There's at least one of these "it's Bush's fault" on every thread now, for the last 3 years and it's really, really, really old. Come up with something new if you bother posting.

..How 'bout, That's one more void that's been found in our universe since President Bush declared an end to hostilities in Iraq.

lighten up, Francis.

[EternalVigilance]