A big hole....

Evidently there's a big load of nothing out there, over which scientists are puzzling:

"Astronomers are scratching their heads over a puzzling non-discovery, an enormous hole in the universe measuring nearly a billion light-years across.

There really is nothing to the void, which is empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen "dark matter" that astronomers detect by its gravitational pull."

The authors of the paper in the Astrophysical Journal (Shea Brown, Liliya Williams and Lawrence Rudnick of the University of Minnesota) who have 'discovered' the hole after studying data from the VLA Sky Survey comments that:

"Although our surprising results need independent confirmation, the slightly colder temperature of the CMB in this region appears to be caused by a huge hole devoid of nearly all matter roughly 6-10 billion light-years from Earth"

My goodness, what are they teaching at university these days? The explanation is obvious ... that bit of the universe hasn't been rendered yet.