Although Italian by birth, maritime explorer Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered the Americas under the Spanish emperorâs name. During his first voyage, he led three Spanish galleons, the NiÃ±a, Pinta, and the Santa Maria.
Instead of the general notion that a void is a region of space with a low cosmic mean density; a hole in the distribution of galaxies, it defines voids to be regions in which matter is escaping; which corresponds to the Dark Energy equation of state, w.
Black holes, quasars and active galaxies. Black holes are objects so dense, and with so much mass, that even light cannot escape their gravity. The existence of black holes has been theorised for more than 200 years. It is impossible to observe them directly, and astronomers had no way to test their theories until Hubble arrived.