A supernatural being with the ability to command the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and even all the stars and
galaxies in the universe into existence would certainly be able to create an ongoing supply of photons first.
Not exact matches
Another crucial debate topic: Are there points of light
in a fixed firmament, or are there balls of gas undergoing nuclear fusion grouped
into galaxies in an expanding
universe.
You'll almost certainly dodge that question by claiming he has always existed, so if that's the case, what suddenly prompted God to create a
universe filled with over 100 billion
galaxies containing a trillion trillion stars after spending an eternity extending
into the past existing alone
in an absolute void of nothingness?
@Vic: For the sake of argument, let's suppose the
universe was created by an all powerful being who had existed for an eternity extending
into the past
in emptiness of the nothingness that was before he got bored and created the
universe with its 170 billion or more
galaxies and trillion trillion stars.
As beings of higher complexity are integrated
into the communal «I,» it is better able to comprehend
galaxies and
universes widely divergent
in kind and complexity from those more similar to the earth (SM 298 - 300, 310f, 342 - 45).
Who could POSSIBLY think that this planet, let alone this
universe, was CREATED with us
in mind, being as it is a planet tucked away
into some obscure corner of a forgettable
galaxy — one amongst billions.
Or, if more matter exists
in the
universe than we currently perceive, the force of gravity may stop the expansion process at some point and compel a recontraction, a sucking of all the
galaxies, stars and planets back
into a very dense and hot singularity.
When the cosmos was a few hundred million years old, this gas coalesced
into the earliest stars, which formed
in clusters that clumped together
into galaxies, the oldest of which appears 400 million years after the
universe was born.
Because all elements
in the
universe heavier than hydrogen, helium, and lithium have been forged by nuclear fusion
in the cores of stars and then scattered
into space by supernova explosions, the find indicates that the
galaxy, at the age we're now observing it, was old enough for at least one generation of stars to have formed, lived, and died.
«The significance of this finding is that it calls
into question the validity of certain cosmological models and simulations as explanations for the distribution of host and satellite
galaxies in the
universe,» said co-author Marcel Pawlowski, a Hubble Fellow
in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
As the
universe evolved, dark matter coalesced
into clumps, or halos,
in which the
galaxies then formed.
In the early
universe, astronomers believe, dark matter provided the gravitational scaffolding on which ordinary matter coalesced and grew
into galaxies.
They accepted the notion that the entire observable
universe — 100 billion
galaxies, each stuffed with 100 billion stars, stretching out more than 10 billion light - years
in all directions — was once squashed
into a space far smaller than a single electron.
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK — Many astronomers believe that black holes at the hearts of
galaxies grew
into hulking monsters as
galaxies coalesced around them
in the early
universe.
The study, published online today
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter telescope
in Hawaii to peer
into a time when the
universe was still very young and see what the
galaxy looked like only 670 million years after the big bang.
Webb — custom - built to study these murky epochs — could use gravitational lensing to unveil these and even older
galaxies in sufficient detail and number to pin down exactly how these ancient objects arose and first brought light
into the
universe.
For example, small differences
in temperature across the sky show where parts of the
universe were denser, eventually condensing
into galaxies and galactic clusters.
The surface, a sweeping parabola of Euclidean purity, seems perfectly matched to its function: to peer from a tiny speck
in the
universe called Earth
into an unimaginably distant past when vast
galaxies were still forming.
They painstakingly converted the images
into 3 - D,
in order to make accurate measurements of the number of
galaxies at different epochs
in the
universe's history.
Previous research
into star formation
in the early
universe has typically been biased toward massive
galaxies because they're brighter.
Research
into star formation
in galaxies helps address many fundamental questions about the
universe, and this rare star formation event will help propel this field of knowledge.»
Most clusters
in the
universe today are dominated by giant elliptical
galaxies in which the dust and gas has already been formed
into stars.
In a faraway corner of the
universe, a crash of cosmic proportions is under way, cramming more than 1000
galaxies into a space normally reserved for a handful.
Astronomers expect to find roughly 10 more such systems
in the survey, which will provide important insights
into the fundamental physics of
galaxies as well as how the
universe expanded over the last several billion years.
In practice, normal and dark matter appear to fill the
universe with a foam - like structure, where
galaxies are located on the thin walls between bubbles, and are grouped
into superclusters.
The largest clumps of matter
in the
universe had an initial angular momentum — and these clumps broke up
into ever smaller clumps, forming smaller clusters of
galaxies, groups of
galaxies, individual
galaxies, solar systems within
galaxies and ultimately, individual stars and planets.
In the standard low - density
universe, small fluctuations have trouble growing
into large
galaxies.
All the star forming material
in galaxies should have been turned
into stars when the
universe had only a fraction of its present age, 13,8 billion years.
Most of known space will fly off
into the darkness, isolating our local group of
galaxies in its own lonely pocket
universe.
Being the dominant form of matter
in the
universe, dark matter must sculpt
galaxies into shape.
Computer simulations derived from Hubble's data show that it will take an additional two billion years after the encounter for the interacting
galaxies to completely merge under the tug of gravity and reshape
into a single elliptical
galaxy similar to the kind commonly seen
in the local
universe.
Data from the Illustris project, a large computer simulation of the evolution and formation of
galaxies, suggests that the black holes at the centre of every
galaxy are helping to send matter
into the loneliest places
in the
universe.
While dwarf
galaxies are not massive, they are the most numerous
galaxy type
in the
universe: understanding this assemblage will undoubtedly shed new insight
into the formation of
galaxies at all masses.
In addition to providing enough data to create a deep 3D map showing the distribution and diversity of galaxies in the observable universe, the information gathered by ZFOURGE is also giving scientists a glimpse into what our own galaxy was like in its youth, and what it's likely to be billions of years from no
In addition to providing enough data to create a deep 3D map showing the distribution and diversity of
galaxies in the observable universe, the information gathered by ZFOURGE is also giving scientists a glimpse into what our own galaxy was like in its youth, and what it's likely to be billions of years from no
in the observable
universe, the information gathered by ZFOURGE is also giving scientists a glimpse
into what our own
galaxy was like
in its youth, and what it's likely to be billions of years from no
in its youth, and what it's likely to be billions of years from now.
Since the light generated by the
galaxy travelled for billions of years to reach Hubble, the telescope is,
in effect, seeing
into the earliest years of the
universe.
In the early
universe, before the budding
galaxies have had time to upcycle their abundant hydrogen
into heavier elements, organic chemistry is thought to proceed slowly or not at all.
Others theorize that the early
universe broke first
into colossal clumps that contained enough building materials to make structures on the grandest scale — great walls and sheets of millions of
galaxies — that fragmented
into increasingly smaller gas and clouds, ultimately resulting
in individual
galaxies.
The merging of small
galaxies into larger ones is common throughout the
universe, but because the shredded
galaxies are so faint it has been hard to extract details
in three - dimensions about how such mergers proceed.
Several popular theories posit that the first black holes gorged themselves on gas clouds and dust
in the early
universe, growing
into the supersized black holes that lurk
in the centers of
galaxies today.
Matter
in the early
universe slowly accumulated
into larger structures, from molecules and clouds of molecular gas to stars and eventually
galaxies.
Quasars are among the most luminous objects
in the
universe, and generally are believed to be powered by material being drawn
into a supermassive black hole at the center of a
galaxy, releasing large amounts of energy.
In an instant, the equivalent mass twice that of our sun was converted directly into gravitational waves — briefly producing more energy than all the energy that is radiated as light by all the galaxies in the universe at any moment, LIGO scientists sa
In an instant, the equivalent mass twice that of our sun was converted directly
into gravitational waves — briefly producing more energy than all the energy that is radiated as light by all the
galaxies in the universe at any moment, LIGO scientists sa
in the
universe at any moment, LIGO scientists say.
They are some of the most distant objects discovered
in the observable
universe, making them key to understanding the formation of the cosmos we inhabit — especially the early stages when the first stars and
galaxies burst
into existence.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Three billion years ago
in a distant
galaxy, two massive black holes slammed together, merged
into one and sent space — time vibrations, known as gravitational waves, shooting out
into the
universe.
«Every 2,000 years, the planets of our
galaxy align
in a perfect line that funnels the cosmic energies of the
universe to flow
into one perfect comedic collaboration.
As Mario you'll pursue Bowser, only to get blasted
into space and land on the comet, discovering that it's actually a spaceship powered from stars and run by Roselina who is,
in short, the mother of the
universe since she raises Lumas (little star babies),
into adulthood where they become planets, suns, and
galaxies.