A groundbreaking study using the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a truly astonishing discovery about our universe: it may ...

The Bootes Void,often called the Great Void, is one of the largest and most mysterious structures in the observable universe. Discovered in 1981 by astronomer Robert Kirshner and his team, this ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

The results of these voyages across the full observable universe, from the present day back to the Big Bang for the three cosmological models, are expected by late May 2012.

Start with the laws of physics, a Universe full of a specific amount matter and radiation, and a hot, dense, expanding, and mostly uniform state, and wait. 13.8 billion years later, you'll have a ...

Assuming the Universe is isotropic, the distance to the edge of the observable universe is roughly the same in every direction. That is, the observable universe is a spherical volume (a ball) centered ...

Of course, the universe is only estimated to be 13.7 billion years old, and as a "light-year" is the distance that light can travel in a year, how could the observable universe be 93 billion light ...

How Did The Observable Universe Take Shape? ByQuora, Contributor. Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Follow Author. Jun 07, 2016, 01:37pm EDT Jun 07, 2016, 01 ...

What does the entire observable universe look like? Not exactly like this–but it’s a pretty (and fascinating) picture. The illustration, based on logarithmic maps from Princeton researchers ...

This marks the edge of the observable Universe, and while you might think that means the Universe is 26 billion light-years across, thanks to cosmic expansion, it is now closer to 46 billion light ...

However, the observable universe extends farther than 13.8 billion light-years in every direction because, for all the time space has existed, it’s also been expanding.