Sentences with phrase «current age of the universe»

Alternative explanations posit these anomalously massive black holes grew and merged in throngs of stars called globular clusters, but that process can easily require more time than the current age of the universe.

The two black holes close together gradually over time as their orbits degrade as energy is lost generating gravitational waves, but the process can take longer than the current age of the universe.

A star that weighs about one - tenth as much as the sun, for example, has a projected lifetime of roughly 12 trillion years — more than 800 times the current age of the universe.

The newly observed filament has a redshift of just above 3, corresponding to 85 % of the current age of the universe.

«It opened my eyes to the fact that things are going to evolve and are still going to be there in timescales that dwarf the current age of the universe,» he says.

«Once planets form, they can survive for long periods of time, even longer than the current age of the universe,» explains DiStefano.

By contrast, stars having a fraction of the mass of the Sun seem able to endure for trillions of years, which is much greater than the current age of the universe.