{"id":5164,"date":"2007-11-27T19:45:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T19:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=5164"},"modified":"2009-08-26T00:32:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T06:32:45","slug":"theres-a-hole-in-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2007\/11\/theres-a-hole-in-the-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s a Hole in the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"blocked\"><p>Astronomers have found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrao.edu\/pr\/2007\/coldspot\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">an enormous hole in the Universe<\/a>, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen &#8220;dark matter.&#8221; While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrao.edu\/pr\/2007\/coldspot\/\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/void_small.jpg\" alt=\"void_small\" title=\"void_small\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/void_small.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/void_small-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrao.edu\/pr\/2007\/coldspot\/\" class=\"external external_icon\">NRAO<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=5331\" class=\"external external_icon\">warrenellis<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies, and gas, and the mysterious, unseen &#8220;dark matter.&#8221; While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the Universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all. (via NRAO, warrenellis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}