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A team of astronomers, using data from the NRAO VLA Sky Survey, have studied a region known as the "WMAP Cold Spot", because it stood out in maps of the cosmic microwave background made by NASA's WMAP mission. They have found the enourmous region, nearly a billion light-years across, to be empty of both normal matter (stars, galaxies, etc.) and of dark matter. More...