Andrey Khavryuchenko himself

Huge Hole Found in the Universe

Robert Roy Britt at LiveScience writes:

The gargantuan hole was found by examining observations made using the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope, funded by the National Science Foundation.

There is a “remarkable drop in the number of galaxies” in a region of sky in the constellation Eridanus, [researcher] Lawrence Rudnick [of the University of Minnesota] said.

The region had been previously been dubbed the “WMAP Cold Spot,” because it stood out in a map of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) radiation made by NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotopy Probe (WMAP) satellite. The CMB is an imprint of radiation left from the Big Bang, the theoretical beginning of the universe.

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Photons of the CMB gain a small amount of energy when they pass through normal regions of space with matter, the researchers explained. But when the CMB passes through a void, the photons lose energy, making the CMB from that part of the sky appear cooler.