Sentences with phrase «visible universe»

About 3 times the mass of the sun was converted into gravitational waves in a fraction of a second — with a peak power output about 50 times that of the whole visible universe.

If god created visible universes as often as barbers cut hair, there'd be no atheists.

According to a leading cosmological model called inflation, the entire visible universe expanded wildly just after the Big Bang, growing almost instantaneously from a speck far smaller than a proton to a ball the size of a grapefruit, when the universe was 10 - 35 second old.

The truth is, more monkeys than you can fit volume wise into the visible universe.

In any case, it seems that our universe is anthropos centic, which could be to say that we are the center of the visible universe.

Because there is only one visible universe, and because that universe does not demonstrate a particular type of creator (see the countless creation myths across history and geography) there is no compulsion to believe in a god.

Unlike peninsular constructs such as multiverse, which by themselves can not have any direct relation to the life - world, the construct of the visible universe possesses a heuristic quality of predicting some new properties of the universe that are subject to empirical testing (p. 289).

There is a reason the visible universe is too vast for us.

Since the visible universe has been proven to be physical and is expanding, it means it had a beginning and is finite.

A perpetual cosmos does not require any «expansion / retraction» mechanism within our visible universe..

If the density of matter in the visible universe was large enough, the expansion would not just slow; it would, thanks to gravity, eventually go into reverse, contracting the visible universe into an infinitesimally small point — a Big Crunch.

The orbiting watchtower will sense collisions clear to the edge of the visible universe, back to the dawn of time.

Astronomers have discovered the most luminous galaxy ever found, shining with the equivalence of 300 trillion suns from the far side of the visible universe.

It could, in fact, resolve structures about 300 light - years across in galaxies on the opposite side of the visible universe — something useful for understanding the history of star formation as well as the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Failing to spot some 70 percent of the matter in the visible universe may seem like a glaring oversight, but astronomers were aware that telescopes simply could not capture all the objects that must be lurking in space.

They generally regarded dark matter as little more than the glue that holds together the visible universe and all its rich diversity.

For years they convinced themselves that although the visible universe may be secondary in mass, it is where all the interesting things happen.

But that and other far - fetched ideas may inspire the ambitious projects necessary to catch a glimpse of the core — a place just 3,950 miles below our feet and yet, in many ways, less accessible than the edge of the visible universe, 13.8 billion light - years away.

Befitting its high - definition moniker, HDST's mirror could resolve structures about 300 light - years across in galaxies on the opposite side of the visible universe — something useful for understanding star formation, as well as the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Theorists have predicted that telescopes could see such events from a time just a few hundred million years after the big bang, near the margins of the visible universe.

Detection of such waves — ripples in the fabric of space — would be direct evidence for the theory of cosmological inflation, a brief epoch immediately after the Big Bang when the visible universe abruptly swelled to at least 1075 times its initial volume.

• Supermassive black holes looming within baby galaxies near the edge of the visible universe.

She pictures a vast landscape, far grander than the visible universe, in which the natural fluctuations of quantum physics drive endless random energy variations.

Because plasma makes up more than 99 percent of the visible universe, such simulations also offer insight into a wide range of astrophysical phenomena, including stellar formation and the energetic events that create cosmic rays.

Schaefer realized that only a gamma - ray burst, the most powerful type of explosion ever observed, is bright enough to give us information about conditions near the edge of the visible universe, more than 13 billion light - years away.

These mysterious objects can be clearly seen all the way across the visible universe.

This fourth state of matter constitutes nearly all of the visible universe; plasmas are what stars and our sun are made of.

The visible universe could lie on a membrane floating within a higher - dimensional space.

Cosmic expansion effectively puts a finite size on the visible universe, which is another way of saying that distant light is redshifted to low energies, and the light from even more distant objects is cut off from us entirely.

Using two large telescopes in Australia and the Canary Islands, he has determined that the visible universe contains about 70,000 million million million stars — that's a 7 followed by 22 zeros.

This year a group of astrophysicists has deduced an answer: The visible universe stretches at least 24 gigaparsecs in all directions.

8 mutations per nucleotide per generation), then... the number of children that each couple would have to have to maintain a constant population size would exceed the number of stars in the visible universe by ten orders of magnitude.»

And all of the visible universe into one mass of matter.»

Taken together, the Sloan results lay out one of the most astonishing stories in science: The visible universe is merely the foam atop a much grander cosmic sea.

Many of these galaxies are very faint, more than 1 billion times fainter than what the naked human eye can see, marking them as some of the oldest galaxies within the visible universe.

That discovery means theorists have been right about the role of filaments in funneling matter in the visible universe.

2 Lined up end to end, they would stretch some 10 billion light - years — literally from here to the edge of the visible universe.

One digs into the earth while the other looks at the sky, and a stone tool once wielded by Homo erectus couldn't be more different from an exploding star at the edge of the visible universe.

Once the upgrade is complete, CEBAF will become an unprecedented tool for the study of the basic building blocks of the visible universe.

In present - day estimates of the universe's makeup, ordinary atoms (such as those we detect as the visible universe) contribute only about 5 percent; the bulk of the cosmos takes the form of so - called dark energy, under whose influence the universe is expanding at an increasing clip.

Of course, astronomers are constantly scoping out spectacular fireworks — most often in the cores of galaxies scattered across the remote reaches of the visible universe.

Some are speeding away at about 1000 kilometres per second, and it seems likely the flow continues to the edge of the visible universe.

If there is something so massive beyond the edge of the visible universe, it could provide support for inflation theory, which suggests that our universe underwent a period of exponential expansion just after it began.

Hundreds of clusters of galaxies are streaming en masse towards a region at the edge of the visible universe.