What is the largest object in the known universe?

The biggest single entity that scientists have identified in the universe is a supercluster of galaxies called the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. It's so wide that light takes about 10 billion years to move across the entire structure. For perspective, the universe is only 13.8 billion years old.

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What is the biggest thing in the universe size?

The absolute largest thing in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, which is about 10 billion light-years across. As far as we know, the absolute largest thing in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall.

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What is the largest empty space in the universe?

The Boötes Void (/boʊˈoʊtiːz/ boh-OH-teez) (colloquially referred to as the Great Nothing) is an approximately spherical region of space found in the vicinity of the constellation Boötes, containing very few galaxies, hence its name. It is enormous, with a radius of 62 megaparsecs.

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Is there anything that is bigger than the universe?

The trite answer is that both space and time were created at the big bang about 14 billion years ago, so there is nothing beyond the universe. However, much of the universe exists beyond the observable universe, which is maybe about 90 billion light years across.

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What is the most powerful object in the universe?

Astronomers first discovered quasars, considered to be the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, 60 years ago — but they didn't understand their origin. Now, scientists think they have unlocked the mystery behind what ignites these celestial objects.

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What's the rarest thing in the universe?

Almost every galaxy can be classified as a spiral, elliptical, or irregular galaxy. Only 1-in-10,000 galaxies fall into the rarest category of all: ring galaxies.

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What is the most unbreakable thing in the universe?

The strongest material in the universe may be the whimsically named "nuclear pasta." You can find this substance in the crust of neutron stars. This amazing material is super-dense, and is 10 billion times harder to break than steel.

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Is space infinite?

Because space isn't curved they will never meet or drift away from each other. A flat universe could be infinite: imagine a 2D piece of paper that stretches out forever. But it could also be finite: imagine taking a piece of paper, making a cylinder and joining the ends to make a torus (doughnut) shape.

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Is time Finite or infinite?

As a universe, a vast collection of animate and inanimate objects, time is infinite. Even if there was a beginning, and there might be a big bang end, it won't really be an end. The energy left behind will become something else; the end will be a beginning.

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Is God bigger than the universe?

Dear R.R.: Although I know it is very hard for you to imagine, God is bigger than the universe - and one reason is because He created the universe. As the Bible says, ``In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth' (Genesis 1:1).

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Why is 99% empty space?

As a general rule of thumb, nuclei are about 100,000 times smaller than the atoms that they are housed in, making them practically empty space. When you start to consider that atoms are about 99% empty space and they make up 100% of the universe, you can start to see: you're made up of nothingness.

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Are humans 90% empty space?

99.9999999% of your body is empty space.

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How big is the void between galaxies?

The vast voids between galaxies can stretch millions of light-years across and may appear empty.

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What is the oldest thing in the universe?

HD 140283 had a higher than predicted oxygen-to-iron ratio and, since oxygen was not abundant in the universe for a few million years, it pointed again to a lower age for the star. As a result of all of this work, Bond and his collaborators estimated HD 140283's age to be 14.46 billion years.

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What is bigger than the multiverse?

The omniverse (or Omniverse) is the largest of the classical -verses, surpassing a multiverse or even any of the archverses by a transfinite factor.

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Does the multiverse exist?

Even though certain features of the universe seem to require the existence of a multiverse, nothing has been directly observed that suggests it actually exists. So far, the evidence supporting the idea of a multiverse is purely theoretical, and in some cases, philosophical.

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Does the past still exist?

In short, space-time would contain the entire history of reality, with each past, present or future event occupying a clearly determined place in it, from the very beginning and for ever. The past would therefore still exist, just as the future already exists, but somewhere other than where we are now present.

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Will time go on forever?

The universe will get smaller and smaller, galaxies will collide with each other, and all the matter in the universe will be scrunched up together. When the universe will once again be squeezed into an infinitely small space, time will end.

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Is time a illusion?

"When you see things in the really distant Universe, because of the expansion of the Universe, it takes longer for things to happen," she says. The effect is known as cosmological time dilation and it's far more powerful than the tiny time changes seen near Earth.

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Will space eventually end?

Practically, we cannot even imagine thinking of the end of space. It is a void where the multiverses lie. Our universe alone is expanding in every direction and covering billions of kilometres within seconds. There is infinite space where such universes roam and there is actually no end.

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How many years will space end?

In about 100 trillion years, the last light will go out. The bad news is that the universe is going to die a slow, aching, miserable death. The good news is that we won't be around to see it.

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Who created space?

Short answer: We don't really know how the universe was created, though most astrophysicists believe it started with the Big Bang. We know that we live in an expanding universe. That means the entire universe is getting bigger with every passing day.

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What can destroy a whole universe?

According to our best models of the evolution of the universe, the most likely scenario is what's called the Big Freeze. If dark energy keeps accelerating the expansion of the universe forever – and calculations suggest that it will – then the cosmos is in for a slow death that's drawn out for a googol years.

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Can the universe rip?

If dark energy remains unchanging, space will expand indefinitely while increasingly isolated stars will slowly fade away and go cold, a phenomenon referred to as Heat Death. And if dark energy keeps accelerating the expansion of the universe, space itself will eventually be torn apart in the Big Rip.

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What holds every universe?

Inertia is the force that holds the universe together. Literally. Without it, matter would lack the electric forces necessary to form its current arrangement. Inertia is counteracted by the heat and kinetic energy produced by moving particles.

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