![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920105152im_/http://nsf.gov/images/x.gif) News From the Field Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe
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August 23, 2007
![void illustration](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20080920105152im_/http://nsf.gov/news/other_images/void_l.jpg) | 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 "dark matter." While earlier studies have shown holes, or voids, in the large-scale structure of the universe, this new discovery dwarfs them all.
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