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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 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.
That matters because the gas inside galaxy clusters constantly radiates energy away in X-rays and should gradually cool over time, and scientists suspect energy released by supermassive black holes, known as AGN feedback, helps reheat that gas and prevent runaway cooling.
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Sharmila Kuthunur,
Space.com,
20 May 2026
Several other similar observatories have come online since then to glimpse hundreds of additional events, but all this activity represents a narrow range of gravitational waves—those created when neutron stars or relatively small black holes collide.
That means closing gaps quickly, improving leadership alignment and ensuring teams are focused on what drives results.
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Sue Mysko,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
One of the most glaring gaps lies between the infrared and millimeter-wavelength radio observations, but the Probe Far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) would fill much of it.