"There is no hole in the Universe; the closest we have are the underdense regions known as cosmic voids, which still contain matter."
"The black cloud that appears in the image is clearly in the foreground of all of them, blocking all of the background light in the center."
"These light sources, based on the way they appear in our modern instruments, cannot be objects located billions of light-years away."
"The brighter ones have diffraction spikes and halos around them, indicating that they're point-like sources, as seen by our conventional telescopes."
Claims of a hole in the Universe are false. The supposed void is actually a cloud of neutral gas blocking light from stars within the Milky Way galaxy. The image shows various stars, not distant objects, as they appear with diffraction spikes and halos. Cosmic voids exist but still contain matter. The light sources are not billions of light-years away, as the Milky Way is only about 100,000 light-years across.
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