The Largest Space Gap Ever Found!

This took everybody by surprise: the largest space gap, about a billion light years across and around 6-10bn light years from Earth. This vacuum does not only lack the matter which stars, planets and other space bodies are made up of, but also the so-called "dark matter" too."Not only has no ... [ read more >> ]

A region of the cosmic microwave background emission around the region of the WMAP cold spot (circled). The colours represent very small variations around the average temperature of 2.7 degrees above absolute zero, with blue colours being colder

Image comment: A region of the cosmic microwave background emission around the region of the WMAP cold spot (circled). The colours represent very small variations around the average temperature of 2.7 degrees above absolute zero, with blue colours being colder
Image credits: Rudnick/NASA

A region of the cosmic microwave background emission around the region of the WMAP cold spot (circled). The colours represent very small variations around the average temperature of 2.7 degrees above absolute zero, with blue colours being colder