About that "Hole" they found, are we moving closer or further from it?

Question

If its the biggest void, and we're moving away from it,.. Is it possible that that is the center of the Universe?

Where the biggest bang of all happened?

Kinda makes you wonder if there is anything there at the center of it all.

Or perhaps that its really God's doorstep,.... just wondering.
cheers all!!

Answer 1

thats what i was wondering, i seen thst on yahoo news!
what is it exactly???


good question!

Answer 2

Religion has nothing to do with science and the universe around us. I'm not sure what void in space astronomers discovered but it seems that it could just be empty space or maybe even a black hole if no objects are visible past that void. As for whether there's a center to the universe I think there is one. Maybe I'm wrong but the big bang seemed to take place in one region of space and expanded outward. That's why solar systems are moving away from each other. The matter continues to travel outward from this center through the endless void of space. If that's correct then the universe may even be sphereical in shape with a definite center. If that is true then whether this emptiness in space that was discovered is the center of the universe can be tested by seeing if stars surrounding this void are moving away from it evenly all around. I probably don't know what I'm talking about. Sorry.

Answer 3

There really is no center of the observable universe.

Conversely, everywhere could be the center, it's arbitrary
and of no scientific meaning or validity, beyond the need
for some people to seek comfort in that description,
in bringing order. Which is also fine, and no one
should hold that against you.

It's important also to realize and understand that
Even the original big bang, had no center, as it was
space/time itself that expanded and continues for as far
as we can see, even today.

That's space/time baby !

The universe continues to expand, remembering that when
observers look out into deep intergalactic space, and even further at Quasars, they are seeing the very distant past.

It follows that the hole, better characterized perhaps as the "Great Void," to which you refer, is also expanding, and in that sense we are moving away from it.

Think of it as being a little like the ocean, expanding between continents and pushing them aside.

Some pepole might also visualise that region as being like a large soap bubble, on the surface of water, with the analogy
being the universe.

Realize also, this is not a hole, not a black hole,
or an unusually large cosmic automotive equivalent pot-hole,
it is simply a region in intergalactic space, where we cannot
see much in the way of significant matter, radiation, and/or energy, being manifestations of the same thing, same thing,
same thing, same thing,,,,!

It's a billion light years in scale, and so it's even larger than the parking lot at your local Walmart.

There are very many of these regions spread in between
inter-galactic- super-clustered-strand structured regions of
the observable universe. However, this "Great Void" is a region that we can see, and appears to be unusually large.

So, think of the universe as being like a ball of steel wool,
or an SOS pad, the filaments of steel wool are the galactic
strands of clustered super clusters, and the spaces in between the strands, are the holes, or voids. There are many voids, some closer to our own galaxy, and as the universe expands all are moving away in time and space, but the one we're talking about is larger than the others.

So if you stretch the ball of steel wool in all directions,
the void spaces also grow larger.

So, are you paranoid ? Or simply Void ?

Luv U all, ba bye,,,

Answer 4

Great question, but in my totally un-scientific opinion, it doesn't matter. It is where it and we are where we are; at least for now. I do wonder what certain religious folk will make of it. Or if many will just dismiss it as scientific hogwash, like the calculated age of the earth, and evolution. I have the feeling that "god's doorstep", if it exists, is invisible to the telescope as well as to the human eye-and mind.

Answer 5

The universe is such a mysterious place to me...."the unknown", but if you think about it we don't really know all that much about our own planet. The only way we really know what's inside it is sound waves bouncing around back and forth and we interpret the data, BUT no one has been to the center of the earth to confirm what's there or sent a probe there to say "hey this is whats at the center of our planet."

Answer 6

I've heard that there is a huge blackhole in the center of every galaxy. There must be one at the core of the Milky Way. It is amazing to think that even if we could go lightspeed, it would still take thousands and thousands of years just to cross this one galaxy out of trillions. Amazing. Warp speed of over 1,000 times the speed of light wouldn't even cut it to see everything the Universe has to offer.

Answer 7

I'm not sure, but I like the idea that the world of science gets rocked every once in awhile. And to those who believe that science can explain everything, think again.

Answer 8

I find this to be an even better thing than global warming to worry about. They can't do anything about it, so they can't fleece any tax money out of me to throw away on trying to fix the undo able. It won't get much press.

Answer 9

i enjoyed your question, and yes it is very possible that the hole is the center of the universe,,it has to be somewhere, right?..might as well be there...again...good question..keep em coming...

Answer 10

Those astronomers will make up anything to get attention!!

I don't think its a hole they found this time, its emptiness stretching for about a billion light years.

Answer 11

Since we are going around in our galaxy in circles, and this is found in the center of the galaxy, we aren't moving closer of away that much from it