The void

By Michael J.W. Stickings

A fascinating discovery, of sorts:

Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across.

It is empty of both normal matter -- such as galaxies and stars -- and the mysterious "dark matter" that cannot be seen directly with telescopes.

The "hole" is located in the direction of the Eridanus constellation and has been identified in data from a survey of the sky made at radio wavelengths.

A report on the discovery will be published in The Astrophysical Journal of The University of Chicago. Make sure to read the entire BBC piece.

Awesome, I think, may be the only word for the discovery, and I'm not being sarcastic.