It does seem to call the cosmological principle into question. Or the maximum size for cosmological anisotropies is much larger than we thought. A third option is that perhaps the quantum vacuum is indeed only metastable and has already started collapsing to ground state in the middle of this void, and thus there is a bubble of universal annihilation expanding at (at most) light speed that will eventually engulf the entire universe, observable or otherwise.
Hang on... I just realized that if the bubble of vacuum collapse moves at light speed (which in all likelihood it would) then it would be impossible to see it coming. UNLESS, perhaps the collapse started during inflation... Hmm... Come on Dark Energy!! Keep that thing away from us!
And there's black holes that lead to no where (as far as we know) and we don't know if there's other people/things and if there are we are sure to cause a war with anything new
I mean ... The stars kind of look like they're fading, so maybe that light hasn't reached to how far we can see yet ? Like the faded ones will get brighter eventually and more will show up ?
Bullshit. It's just a gas+dust cloud. Indeed, if it were devoid of anything, then it would be see-through, not black. This specific cloud is Barnard 68, about 500 ly distant and 0.5 ly in diameter. That very photo is on the wikipedia page for "molecular cloud".
These clouds are opaque because dust blocks visible light. Look at the same cloud in infrared or submillimetric and you'll see it's full of baby stars.
Fools, this is the solution when planetary systems are overrun with Cybermen. Don't you remember what was revealed when the Doctor and Clara visited Hedgewick's World of Wonders?
These clouds are opaque because dust blocks visible light. Look at the same cloud in infrared or submillimetric and you'll see it's full of baby stars.