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Recent Examples of vacuitiesIs this a biting farce about the vacuities of celebrity industry?—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 24 Jan. 2026
The vast majority of vacancies are filled by appointment by the governor.
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Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
3 June 2026
As vacancies arise, each board of trustees should instruct its search committee to reject an applicant who doesn’t commit in writing to be identified as a finalist.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
3 June 2026
The cosmic web is the term scientists use to describe a skeleton-like framework of filaments and sheets of dark matter and gas along which galaxies gathered and evolved over time, which is punctuated by nearly empty voids.
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Robert Lea,
Space.com,
15 May 2026
The claim, remember, is that these cosmic voids are completely empty of normal matter, dark matter, and emit no detectable radiation of any kind.
If little red dots are rapidly accreting supermassive black holes shrouded by dense gas envelopes, this would explain why these mystery objects are so faint in X-rays, as these cocoons should absorb this high-energy radiation.