This is not a billion $ news, but something much much bigger...read on...
Great 'cosmic nothingness' found - BBC report, Aug 24, 2007
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.
The void discovered by a University of Minnesota team is about 1,000 times the volume of what would be expected in typical cosmic gaps. If you enter this "hole" and are traveling at the speed of light, you'd have to travel for a billion years before you would get to the other side...
This is probably the perfect place to use the term mind-boggling...it is simply beyond anyone's abilityb to comprehend...a billion light years' distance of nothingness...you try digesting it for a moment, and it is likely you will feel somewhat disoriented...
It makes one wonder if there indeed is a God!
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