Aw man. I saw that news story and I came here thinking that I would be the first to post in BAUT... oh well.

But yeah, this is something weird. Obviously just based on random scattering of matter there will be some spaces which have less then others, but this is many orders of magnitude larger than would be predicted.

Perhaps one of the galaxies in the area is telling really bad jokes? Or is just really smelly?

Okay... there's that poor attempt at humor.

But this "hole" is so large that it will obviously take a lot of time for the light to travel from one side to the other. Is it somehow possible that there is not one single large hole? But rather.. that by the time the light from the far side travels to the near side that part is no longer empty...

Okay... I don't know how to explain what my under-rested 4:00 am brain is trying to say. I'll try later. (maybe somebody got it. I'm getting at the whole "time is a factor" thing and "there is no universal now")