uh...there's a hole in your universe

[Darth Rock&Roll]

...and it's about a billion light years across.

Holy shit!

http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/graphics.shtml

[Darth Rock&Roll]

oh, and of course, this goes well with the line attributed to Lao Tzu: "We cannot call it void, nor can we call it not void, but for the purpose of pointing it out, we shall call it void".

and what a void!

[mixjourneyman]

It looks like hole in a giant pair of fishnet stockings.

[C-Hopkins]

The Anus of the Universe.

[Dmitri]

Are they seeing the hands that are pulling that hole apart yet? Those would be the hands of god.

Anyway, it's not really "the Universe" -- they should be calling it "the fraction of the Universe currently registrable with our inept little observation toys"

[Ron Panunto]

And it's not really a "hole" so much as a variation in density. The universe can't have a hole.

[Bär]

Hawking: Your theory of a donut-shaped universe is
intriguing, Homer. I may have to steal it.

[C-Hopkins]

And it's not really a "hole" so much as a variation in density. The universe can't have a hole.

It can have an anus though.

[Dmitri]

Someone needs to build a restaurant at the edge of that hole.

[TaoJoannes]

I cropped and zoomed and image-enhanced the picture, and I think I know what's causing the hole.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

And it's not really a "hole" so much as a variation in density. The universe can't have a hole.

why not? and who says there's only one universe? Maybe that's a hole that goes into another universe or maybe that hole tells us there is a multiverse like each universe is a bubble in a huge pile of bubbles.

Not enough is known to say there can't be a hole in the universe.

"as it is above, so it is below"

[Darth Rock&Roll]

I cropped and zoomed and image-enhanced the picture, and I think I know what's causing the hole.

lol, a fucking goatse universe!

[Ron Panunto]

And it's not really a "hole" so much as a variation in density. The universe can't have a hole.

It can have an anus though.

In the words of Carl Sagan - billions upon billions upon billions.

[Ron Panunto]

And it's not really a "hole" so much as a variation in density. The universe can't have a hole.

why not? and who says there's only one universe? Maybe that's a hole that goes into another universe or maybe that hole tells us there is a multiverse like each universe is a bubble in a huge pile of bubbles.

Not enough is known to say there can't be a hole in the universe.

"as it is above, so it is below"

Beam me up to your starship Darth.

[Darth Rock&Roll]

true dat, there are quite a few billion anuses right here on our little wet ball of mud.