Sentences with phrase «observable universe contains»

«Observable universe contains two trillion galaxies, 10 times more than previously thought.»

By the latest estimate, the observable universe contains 200 billion galaxies.

This led to an estimate that the observable universe contained about 100 billion galaxies.

Most galaxies in the observable universe contain a supermassive black hole at their center, one that is either active and surrounded by an accretion disk of dust, gas and other debris, or is dormant — lurking at the center, patiently awaiting its next meal.

Not exact matches

If Alan Guth's work is empirically verified, a large question will remain — a question that takes Guth's science to just such a boundary: Where did that primordial something, that «patch of material packed with... repulsive gravity» that contained «the ingredients of what would become our entire observable universe,» come from?

The Milky Way is just one of a trillion galaxies in the observable universe and contains just as many stars.

The microwave background marks the limit of the observable universe, nearly 14 billion light - years away, and Rudnick believes that the void, which is 6 billion to 10 billion light - years away, imprinted its form on the microwave background by the simple virtue of being empty: Under the influence of dark energy and gravity, space containing clusters of galaxies compresses microwaves to a shorter, warmer part of the spectrum, while space that is empty on this scale stretches and cools microwaves.

In fact, the energy available to fall into the black hole is only that contained within the observable horizon: the volume of the universe that the black hole can expect to see over the course of its existence.