Sentences with phrase «across billions of light years»

It seems the particles that Enrico Fermi dubbed neutrinos, meaning «little neutral ones», might stretch across billions of light years.

Not exact matches

If you took a sheet of paper and filled it with zeros, then reproduced zeros on sheets of paper lined up across the entire universe, 15 billion light years across, that number would still be smaller than 1010 (123).

Ripples from that union, which took place about 3 billion light - years from Earth, zoomed across the cosmos at the speed of light, eventually reaching the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, which detected them on January 4.

Windows into other dimensions could explain mysterious objects billions of light years across

Such a result would establish at least some FRBs as bona fide cosmic probes, capable of mapping the otherwise - invisible cosmic web across billions of light - years.

What's in these waves that are coming across 1.3 billion light years of space at the speed of light?

A Hungarian - US team of astronomers have found what appears to be the largest feature in the observable universe: a ring of nine gamma ray bursts — and hence galaxies — 5 billion light years across.

They appear to be at very similar distances from us — around 7 billion light years — in a circle 36 ° across on the sky, or more than 70 times the diameter of the Full Moon.

Here Robert Kirschner of Harvard University and his colleagues found an enormous void of starless space, 150 million light - years across, while another team uncovered evidence of a black hole that packs the mass of 2 billion suns into a space no larger than our solar system.

This Hubble Space Telescope view reveals thousands of galaxies stretching back into time across billions of light - years of space.

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, the international team of collaborators peered across cosmic time to observe 65 distant galaxy clusters whose light has taken billions of years to reach Earth.

Such discs, known as quasar accretion disks, are typically about 100 billion kilometers across, and most lay billions of light - years away.

Signs of any dispersion should have been obvious in LIGO's third event, GW170104, because its gravitational waves traveled across three billion light - years, rather than the one billion of LIGO's previous two events.

«Spooky alignment of quasars across billions of light - years.»

Current theory predicts that dark energy would slightly heat the CMB radiation passing through dense regions of galaxies called superclusters, each about a half - billion light - years across.

It stretches some 1.8 billion light years across, making it about twice the size of the previous largest known void, says Szapudi.

That gas often organizes itself into a disk that spirals into the black hole, with friction heating the disk to white - hot temperatures that create a brilliant glow visible across billions of light - years.

An example is the Great Attractor, a huge wall of galaxy clusters that stretches hundreds of millions of light - years across and is located nearly half a billion light - years away from us.

According to that theory, the researchers say, the universe's large - scale structures — in this case, clumps of objects such as quasars — shouldn't be larger than 1.2 billion light - years across.

The elongated, newly discovered large quasar group (LQG) is, on average, about 1.63 billion light - years across but in its largest dimension is more than 4 billion light - years across, the researchers report today in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

Not all the high - energy gamma rays emitted by a blazar, however, make it all the way across billions of light - years to Earth; some strike a hapless EBL photon along the way.

A typical galaxy shines with the energy from billions of stars and is tens of thousands of light years (or more) across.

Abell 2744 is a cluster of galaxies 5 million light - years across and 3.5 billion light - years away.

The nebula has an extent of one million light - years across, and these objects are so distant that their light has taken nearly 10 billion years to reach telescopes on Earth.

It consists of tens of thousands of galaxies lined up in a wall - like structure, stretching across half a billion light - years of space.

It is almost 100 billion light years across and consists of of billions of galaxies and trillions of stars.

«The map's most eye - catching feature is the Sloan Great Wall of galaxies, a clustering of galaxies that stretches 1.37 billion light - years across the sky and is the largest cosmic structure ever found.

The observations will stretch across 10 billion light years into the Universe, revealing the history of its expansion and the growth of structure during the last three - quarters of its history.

When they stitched everything together, they had a picture of dark matter looking across 1 billion light - years of space — the largest map of the invisible stuff produced to date.

The waves came from a catastrophic event — the collision of two black holes located about 1.3 billion light years away from Earth — and the released energy undulated across the universe, much like ripples in a pond.

This latest signal traveled across a record 3 billion light - years of spacetime to reach Earth, and LIGO didn't detect any dispersion effects.

Both are some 100,000 light - years across, containing enough mass to make billions of stars.

It is enough to know that in a single cracking instant we were endowed with a universe that was vast — at least a hundred billion light - years across, according to the theory, but possibly any size up to infinite — and perfectly arrayed for the creation of stars, galaxies, and other complex systems.

In light of the Drummond report issued in February of this year, which highlighted the province's projected $ 30 billion deficit by 2017, and need to cut costs across almost every area of government including health care, it was somewhat of a pre-emptive strike to provide greater transparency on health - care spending.