What's up with this gap in our universe?

Question

Only serious answers, please.

Answer 1

Assuming you are not refering to the American founded
popular comercial apparel franchise.

As you know, galaxies tend to congrigate into clusters, attracted by mutual gravitation, clusters in a hyarchial fashion in turn form "superclusters" wich finnaly, as far as we can currently percieve, congrigate into strands, or steel wool like structures.

Between these strands (the largest know structures in the Universe) are vast areas of seemingly empty space, with very little matter, energy or radiation that can be measured
or seen.

"The great void," a region notable as one of the larger examples, has just been discovered to be upto 1000 times larger than originaly percieved. A large order of magnitude of variance.

A staggering amount of space, particularly
in the context, and in direct relation to typical American urban automotive parking scenarios, and yes, dwarfing even the lots at Walmart at 6am on Sundays, wich when seen virtually empty, most pepole, even some with only recently aquired learners permits, percieve as vasty spacious.

I wonder if that has implications towards the current extimate
of the size and age of the universe as a whole ?

I consider the current estimates of 9 billion or so years to
be artificaly low. When I originaly studied cosmology seriously in late 1980s, estimates were upto 20 billion years.

There is also a smaller gap, missing galaxies, and observable matter, or radiation, much closer by our local
group of galaxies, although smaller.

Even yet to be fully established dark matter appears
scarce in theses regions of the cosmos.

In these voids, missing energy/matter, and localised gravitational feilds, could we be looking at somekind of a "bubble" in space-time, I wonder ?

Answer 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJSS02rPEg

BLACK HOLES


The 20th century saw a great many new discoveries regarding celestial phenomena in the universe. One of these entities, which has only recently been encountered, is the Black Hole. These are formed when a star which has consumed all its fuel collapses in on itself, eventually turning into a black hole with infinite density and zero volume and an immensely powerful magnetic field. We are unable to see black holes even with the most powerful telescope, because their gravitational pull is so strong that light is unable to escape from them. However, such a collapsed star can be perceived by means of the effect it has on the surrounding area. In Surat al-Waqi'a, Allah draws attention to this matter in this way, by swearing upon the position of stars:

And I swear by the stars' positions-and that is a mighty oath if you only knew. (Qur'an, 56:75-76)

The term "black hole" was first employed in 1969 by the American physicist John Wheeler. Previously, we imagined that we were able to see all the stars. However, it later emerged that there were stars in space whose light we were unable to perceive. Because, the light of these collapsed stars disappears. Light cannot escape from a black hole because it is such a high concentration of mass in a small space. The enormous gravitation captures even the fastest particles, i.e. the photons. For example, the final stage of a typical star, three times the mass of the Sun, ends after its burning out and its implosion as a black hole of only 20 kilometres (12.5 miles) in diameter! Black holes are "black," i.e. veiled from direct observation. They nevertheless reveal themselves indirectly, by the tremendous suction which their gravitational force exerts on other heavenly bodies. As well as depictions of the Day of Judgement, the verse below may also be pointing to this scientific discovery about black holes:

When the stars are extinguished. (Qur'an, 77:8)

Moreover, stars of great mass also cause warps to be perceived in space. Black holes, however, do not just cause warps in space but also tear holes in it. That is why these collapsed stars are known as black holes. This fact may be referred to in the verse about stars, and this is another important item of information demonstrating that the Qur'an is the word of Allah:

[I swear] by Heaven and the Tariq! And what will convey to you what the Tariq is? The Star Piercing [the darkness]! (Qur'an, 86:1-3)
http://www.harunyahya.com/articles/miracles_universe.php

Answer 3

what gap?

Answer 4

What gap? More information please.