LONDON: Scientists have found what could be the biggest thing in the universe, and it is a huge cold hole that could fundamentally change our understanding of the universe.
A giant “supervoid”, 1.8-billion light years wide, could explain a large cold spot in the universe that has been unexplained for more than a decade, scientists say. The Cold Spot was found in 2004 as astronomers looked through a map detailing the make-up of the cosmic microwave background, the radiation left over from the beginning of the universe, but it has been unclear where the cold spot came from until now and caused a problem for scientists looking to model the Big Bang.
If the large cold spot sits between us and the radiation left over from the Big Bang, then “it would be a sign that there is an extremely rare large-scale structure in the mass distribution of the universe”, scientists at the Institute for Astronomy at the University of Hawaii say.
