Sentences with phrase «of billions of light years»

Even after traveling over tens of billions of light years, to a photon the trip is instantaneous.

With current observations suggesting that dark energy comprises more than 70 percent of the matter - energy density of the present - day universe, astronomers say that measuring the apparent shapes and the distribution of galaxies in the Universe will constrain the nature of dark energy and allow them to examine whether the general theory of relativity is still a valid description of gravitation on scales of billions of light years.

Within the massive scope of our known universe, hundreds of billions of light years wide, there's no galaxy, no life form, nothing that remotely cares about what I did or didn't do with my life.

Its unique design will allow scientists to gather radio signals from tens of billions of light years away.

Not exact matches

These gravitational waves were generated by two black holes — eight and 14 times the mass of the sun — merging together 1.4 billion light years away from Earth.

The Milky Way, the beautiful spiral galaxy that we call home, contains billions of stars including our own star, the sun, about 26,000 light years from its center.

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This array will, it is said, be able to detect the faintest energy emanating from distant stars — billions of light years from the earth.

Whether someone wishes to believe that God orchestrates the process of evolution, or that God provided the divine spark from which life on Earth first sprung 3.5 billion years ago, or that «Let There Be Light» is a metaphor for the Big Bang, is really none of my concern.

We can not argue about the nature of the light 3 billion years ago because we do not have the data.

He needs to be left alone to manage his 156 - billion light years domain, the cosmos consisting of billions of galaxies with billions of stars in each galaxy.

Either they necessitate a deceptive «God», e.g. creating starlight «in transit» which means that for some light the star that supposedly sent said light would never have actually existed, or they would cause effect that should be evident but are not, e.g. temporarily fast starlight would effectively cook many things, such as life on earth, if the required light (and attendant gamma radiation) were compressed into a significantly shorter time frame (think of the radiation from the apparent 13 billion years of the universe arriving at the same time, or even over a 1000 years).

Oh, so in the vast known Universe, which reaches out for 15 BILLION light years in all directions, with over 100 BILLION galaxies, containing an average of 100 BILLION stars each, with most of those stars now thought to have multiple planets orbiting around them, you can't imagine that there would be at least ONE little planet SOMEWHERE with the right conditions for life without divine intervention?

Here's the deal, Yes, it used to be 28 billion years, now it's 14 billion but that's not on whims of scientists who just want to screw with the common everyday man, it's when certain evidence comes to light and we have to revise our understanding.

For example, the seeming unlimited number of galaxies (with each containing anywhere from an estimated 10 to 500 billion stars) and the precise order that exists within the universe, and the shear distance between stars (an average about 4.2 light years or about 25 trillion miles), has caused some to stop and look in awe.

If you were the creator of a universe 100 billion light years in diameter, that probably is also multi-dimensional as well as eternal, would you hang around trying to impress a group of arrogant primates who a milli - second ago were brachiating among the tress of Africa?

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).

Quantum entanglement suggests that distance must be an illusion, even millions or billions of light years of it.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

There is also the gravitational field effect on light, causing a redshift, and this could be significant considering light travels for millions and even billions of years through space which is not devoid of a gravitational field during that time 3.

there is endless evidence via fossils and other remains of how certain cells evolved light sensitivity and spent billions of years evolving through simple compound eyes to what we see today; the myriad different eyes used by species that presently inhabit the earth.

To an alien life form living on another planet billions of light years from us the death of an 8 year old human, while tragic to us, might be linked by what Einstein called «s p o o k y action at a distance» to an alien birth making it one of their most joyous occasions.

Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»

Simply because I exist on a Planet about a billion light years from any other currently living form of life, not chemicals, elements or gases, and how I don't see this as some random thing — there is something greater than you and I and the evidence is all around you.

Astronomers probe pulsars and quasars, speaking of billions of light - years, billions of degrees centigrade, billions of megawatts, and unimaginable explosions of energy.

4c) let there be LIGHT (1 - 4 all the first day) 5c) God next creates the heavens (what we call the sky) above (2nd day) 6c) dry land appears as the oceans form (3rd day) 7c) green plant life appears on land (3rd day also) 8c) the cloud cover left over from the billions of years of rain finally condenses enough that a visible moon and sun can be seen from the earth's surface through the clouds (4th day) 9c) God creates sea life including fish and birds (5th day) 10c) God creates cattle and beasts (large land animals)(6th day) 11c) God creates man.

The story of creation then glosses over how he made light travel faster than light in order to make it appear that he had created the world 14 billion years ago when in fact he had created the universe only 6000 years ago.

The relative size of the earth and the significance of the human race shrinks before extragalactic distances exceeding a billion light years.

Yet some stars are billions of light - years from the earth.

Spectrographic evidence from light sources billions of light years away would seem to indicate that the persuasive power which maintains these regular patterns of predictability can not be avoided by autonomous activity in the occasions involved even over long periods of time.

We cant even see whats on the other side of the Moon, and we are led to believe about a black hole Billions of light years away based on a telescope?

If we have light which reaches us from a galaxy which is almost the age of the universe, let's say 13.3 billion years old, how did we get that far from that galaxy?

The fact that we can see light from such far away stars means it began its journey billions of years ago.

To determine the distaces beyond a billion light years, the standard measure IS a theory called «The Hubble Effect» that measures the red shift movement of galaxies in relation to one another.

You have to ask yourself how all that vast apparent space, billions of light - years between galaxies, is fill up, is a plenum.

If you were the creator of a universe 100 billion light years in diameter, would you hang around trying to impress a group of arrogant primates who a miilisecond ago were brachiating among the trees of Africa?

Albany's good news came to light just hours after Cuomo, appearing in Catskill to survey the scene of a barge accident, suggested to reporters that there was no need to rush the overall budget negotiations on the roughly $ 150 billion budget, which should have been completed by the April 1 start of the new fiscal year.

The results are consistent with those from the cosmic microwave background — light emitted billions of years earlier.

Therefore, spotting a galaxy that was once 13 billion light - years away (and is now much farther away because the universe is expanding) gives us a glimpse of the universe as it was 13 billion years ago.

This is a map of the cube of spacetime covered in the new survey, showing the distance to the galaxies in billions of light years.

Two points at the opposite extreme limits of the sky — 14 billion light - years to the north horizon and 14 billion light - years to the south horizon — are as far as we can see.

The light that entered Hubble's optics left the galaxy more than 13 billion years ago, eons before the formation of our solar system, when the universe was only a few percent of its present age.

Imagine stepping into a time machine, one that could traverse not only billions of years but also countless light years of space, all in search of life in the universe.

Viewed from Earth's vicinity an exo - Earth a dozen light - years away might be about as bright as a 40 - watt lightbulb on the surface of Mars, but it would also be adjacent to its 10 billion - times - brighter star.

The activity produces enough light to warm up most of the galaxy's dust — which gives the whole galaxy an infrared glow that we can detect from more than 12.5 billion light - years away.

A galaxy 12.5 billion light - years away gives off the light of 300 trillion suns, because its feeding black hole produces enough heat to set the whole galaxy's dust glowing.

The light from the exploding star, which took 9.4 billion years to reach Earth, fell squarely on one galaxy sitting in one of the Frontier Fields clusters.

Telescopes look back in time; light from the most distant locales travels for nearly the entire 13.8 - billion - year history of the universe.

Advanced LIGO's range extends up to 5 billion light - years in all directions for merging objects about 100 times the mass of the sun, project leader David Shoemaker of MIT says.