The widely reported "hole in the Universe" is a lie

(bigthink.com)

13 points | by Brajeshwar a day ago ago

4 comments

  • didgeoridoo a day ago ago

    Thousands of words to say:

    - cosmic voids are real but not actually empty, just lower density than average

    - pop science articles sometimes mistakenly use pictures of Bok globules to represent voids

    This is probably one of the lowest signal-to-noise ratios I have ever seen.

    • kerblang a day ago ago

      Contrary to popular opinion, the "verbosity void" of the article is not a hopeless expanse without any useful information at all; it just has a much lower density than average.

      nyuk nyuk

      Anyhow it barely touched on dark matter... Like, are the voids themselves where the dark matter is, or is it spread out, um, orthogonally?

    • karmakaze 21 hours ago ago

      bigthink just made my list of places to avoid wasting time

    • mcswell a day ago ago

      I found the article quite interesting and informative. Your tl;dr does not accurately describe it.