Sentences with phrase «billion light»

The detection came in the early morning hours of January 4, 2017, LIGO researchers said in a press release, and the coalescing black holes were approximately three billion light years away from Earth when the collided, making this the most distant merger of its kind detected to date.

Only one FRB has been found to repeat, an object known as FRB 121102 in a galaxy about 3 billion light - years away.

Dubbed «CL J1001 +0220,» or «CL J1001» in short, the galaxy cluster is located about 11.1 billion light - years from Earth, pushing back the formation time of galaxy clusters — which consist of thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity — by about 700 million light - years, NASA said.

The galaxy cluster SDSS J1110 +6459 is about 6 billion light - years from Earth and contains hundreds of galaxies.

The universe is incomprehensibly vast, at over 100 billion light years across.

XMM - Newton also discovered a galaxy cluster that was extremely massive (about 1,000 times more massive than the Milky Way Galaxy) and extremely distant (about 7.7 billion light - years away); the evolution of such a cluster reveals how the universe itself has evolved.

Astronomers have discovered a key signpost of rapid star formation in a galaxy 11 billion light - years from Earth, seen as it was when the Universe was only 20 percent of its current age.

«The recent detection appears to be the farthest yet, with the black holes located about three billion light - years away,» said Bose, professor and researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

These active star - forming galaxies located 1.5 billion and 5 billion light - years from Earth are similar to galaxies in the early universe.

This object, named B3 1715 +425, was found in a cluster of galaxies over 2 billion light - years from Earth.

Which is why astronomers were trying to understand how the massive central galaxy of the Phoenix cluster — a gigantic accumulation of about 1,000 galaxies 5.7 billion light - years away — was producing about 1,000 new stars every year.

Even the smallest dots in this image are galaxies, some up to 12 billion light - years away.

Current interpretations of astronomical observations indicate that the age of the Universe is 13.73 (± 0.12) billion years, and that the diameter of the observable Universe is at least 93 billion light years, or 8.80 × 1026 metres.

The universe is 13.7 billion years old, and so at a distance of 10 billion light years, we're looking back in time some 70 percent of the age of the universe.

The galaxy EGS - zs8 - 1 was observed with the Keck Observatory in Hawaii at a distance of 13.1 billion light - years from Earth.

But as it is, we're expecting DESI to see 20 to 30 million galaxies, looking out over a distance of about 10 billion light years.

(It may seem paradoxical that two galaxies on opposite sides can be separated by 93 billion light years after only 13 billion years, since special relativity states that matter can not be accelerated to exceed the speed of light in a localized region of space - time.

A newfound galaxy 12.5 billion light - years from Earth is the most luminous one known in the universe, blazing more brightly than 300 trillion suns.

Taking advantage of the extremely sharp radio «vision» of the continent - wide VLBA, the scientists tracked individual features in the jets of three blazars at distances from Earth ranging from 7.3 to 9 billion light - years.

Far beyond our Milky Way, SCUBA - 2 has seen galaxies more than ten billion light years away.

The data, collected with Keck Observatory's newest instrument called MOSFIRE, revealed a giant black hole in a galaxy called CID - 947 that was 11 billion light years away.

The Abell catalogue contains only five clusters of galaxies with a richness class above 2 within one billion light years from us.

«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.

Astronomers first spotted the explosion, which took place in a galaxy 2.4 billion light - years away, in 2010 and were able to study it for about three years, and they've published the results of that study in a new paper published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

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

August 15, 2014 The Comet Galaxy, a spiral galaxy in Sculptor Image Credit: NASA & ESA The Comet Galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a little more mass than our Milky Way galaxy, located 3.2 billion light - years away from Earth, within the galaxy cluster Abell 2667, in the small southern constellation of Sculptor.

While making a routine search of the GLASS team's data, Kelly spotted the four images of the exploding star on Nov. 11, 2014, in the galaxy cluster MACS J1149.6 +2223, located more than 5 billion light - years away.

At 10.6 billion light years away, we see it in the process of forming only 3 billion years after the Big Bang.

The Hubble Space Telescope was able to peer 13 billion light - years away to find seven galaxies, some born just around 400 million years after the universe's inception.

In 2003, the Anglo - Australian Observatory released a much larger survey («2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey») of over 221,000 galaxies in two slices that extend over 1.5 billion light years in a two - degree field of the sky.

The Keck Observatory data was gathered by the powerful MOSFIRE infrared spectrograph and was crucial to determining SpARCS1049 +56's distance from Earth as 9.8 billion light - years, that it contains at least 27 galaxies and that it has a total mass equal to about 400 trillion Suns.

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

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

«The galaxy, named EGSY8p7, is more than 13.2 billion light - years (4 billion parsecs) away.»

However, almost every hydrogen atom in the IGM, out to the farthest galaxies telescopes can see (13 billion light - years away), has been ionized — has lost its electron.

The Hubble Space Telescope's newly - repaired Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) has peered nearly 5 billion light - years away to resolve intricate details in the galaxy cluster Abell 370

Comparison with the SXS simulations revealed that the signal was from the collision of two hefty black holes 29 and 36 times more massive than the sun and located 1.3 billion light - years from Earth.

Previously, the closest short burst we had ever spotted to Earth took place 1.8 billion light - years away; the burst on August 17 was traced to just 130 million light - years away, about 15 times closer.

The Gemini observations also determined that the dwarf galaxy is more than 3 billion light - years from Earth.

More - stringent tests will be possible if and when LIGO detects black - hole mergers that are larger than this one, or that occur closer to Earth than the Event's estimated distance of 1.3 billion light years, and thus give «louder» waves that stay above the noise for longer.

The signals came from two merging black holes 1.3 billion light - years away.

The left panel shows a slice of thickness 4.7 million light years through the whole simulation that itself has a side length of 4.8 billion light years.

For us, for example, the observable horizon is bigger than the 13.8 billion light years we can see into the past, because it includes everything that we will see forever into the future.

Compare e.g. the article Galaxy's light pushes back dark ages of the universe with New record for Universe's most distant object; both talk about the same object and the same study, but nevertheless the first reports a distance of 15.5 billion light years, whereas the second says 13.6 billion light years!

A gigaparsec is a billion parsecs so that distance corresponds to approximately 6 billion light years.

Scientists have identified the source of mysterious flashes of cosmic radio waves known as fast radio bursts: a surprisingly small galaxy more than 3 billion light - years away.

The quasar has a red shift of 1.04, which is equivalent to a distance of 6 billion light years.

The region being displayed extends across one billion light years.

Scientists subsequently used a number of telescopes around the world to observe it and determined that it has a redshift of 6.29, which translates to a distance of almost 12.6 billion light - years from Earth.

The background quasars are each roughly 12.5 billion light - years from Earth.