Not exact matches
However, starlight from the
galaxies is invisible to the human eye and most modern telescopes due to other known factors that reduce
visible and ultraviolet light
in the
universe.
Astronomers studying the motions of
galaxies and the character of the cosmic microwave background radiation came to realize
in the last century that most of the matter
in the
universe was not
visible.
Those theories suggest that, since there is much more dark matter
in the
universe than
visible matter,
galaxies will form where large concentrations of dark matter (and hence stronger gravity) are present.
There are about 2 trillion
galaxies in the
visible universe!
The computer simulation showed that the dead
galaxies remained stable because they had 100 times more dark matter than
visible matter, providing more evidence of dark matter's importance
in the
universe.
In the image above there are around 5,500
visible galaxies, with some of them being billions of light years away and 13.2 billion years old — just 450 million years after the Big Bang and the creation of the
universe.
Several hundred never before seen
galaxies are
visible in this «deepest - ever» view of the
universe, called the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), made with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.