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Giant Void In Space Discovered. The AP reports, "Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe" in which there are "no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter," just "1 billion light years across of nothing." Minnesota astronomy professor Lawrence Rudnick, author of the paper that will be published in Astrophysical Journal on the find, called it "too much of a surprise."
Space.com added that Rudnick said, "Not only has no one ever found a void this big, but we never even expected to find one this size." Rudnick's colleague Liliya R. Williams agreed that the void "is not normal, based on either observational studies or on computer simulations of the large-scale evolution of the universe."