Observable Universe Contains Ten Times More Galaxies Than Previously Thought
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies in the Universe. The group came to the surprising conclusion that there are at least 10 times as many galaxies in the observable Universe as previously thought. The results have clear implications for our understanding of galaxy formation, and also help solve an ancient astronomical paradox — why is the sky dark at night
Among other data, scientists used the galaxies visible in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) to recalculate the total number of galaxies in the observable Universe.
The image was taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and covers a portion of the southern field of GOODS. This is a large galaxy census, a deep-sky study by several observatories to trace the formation and evolution of galaxies.
Credit: NASA, ESA/Hubble
This animation starts with a lookback into the early Universe. The local, modern Universe with large and evolved galaxies can be seen to the left. The distant, early Universe with many tiny and primordial galaxies can be seen to the right. These galaxies grew through mergers to the galaxies we see today.The animation slowly turns by 90 degree and ends with a view similar to the Hubble Deep fields.
Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser
“It boggles the mind that over 90% of the galaxies in the Universe have yet to be studied. Who knows what interesting properties we will find when we observe these galaxies with the next generation of telescopes,” explains Christopher Conselice about the far-reaching implications of the new results.
In analysing the data the team looked more than 13 billion years into the past. This showed them that galaxies are not evenly distributed throughout the Universe’s history. In fact, it appears that there were a factor of 10 more galaxies per unit volume when the Universe was only a few billion years old compared with today. Most of these galaxies were relatively small and faint, with masses similar to those of the satellite galaxies surrounding the Milky Way.
Since Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way is not the only galaxy in the Universe astronomers try to find out how many of them are there. This new Hubblecast focusses on the question “How many galaxies are there?” including the new numbers achieved in 2016.
Credit: Directed by: Mathias Jäger; Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser; Written by: Mathias Jäger, Eleanor Spring, Thomas Barratt; Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa; Images: NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser;Videos: NASA, ESA/Hubble;Animations: NASA, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada;Music: Johan B. Monell (www.johanmonell.com); Web and technical support: Mathias Andre and Raquel Yumi Shida; Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen
These results are powerful evidence that a significant evolution has taken place throughout the Universe’s history, an evolution during which galaxies merged together, dramatically reducing their total number. “This gives us a verification of the so-called top-down formation of structure in the Universe,” explains Conselice.
The decreasing number of galaxies as time progresses also contributes to the solution of Olbers’ paradox — why the sky is dark at night [3]. The team came to the conclusion that there is such an abundance of galaxies that, in principle, every point in the sky contains part of a galaxy. However, most of these galaxies are invisible to the human eye and even to modern telescopes, owing to a combination of factors: redshifting of light, the Universe’s dynamic nature and the absorption of light by intergalactic dust and gas, all combine to ensure that the night sky remains mostly dark.
Contacts and sources:Christopher Conselice
University of Nottingham
Mathias Jäger
ESA/Hubble,
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nasa/Nazis are so full of crap all world leaders are in on this scam that’s why it is always changing and why do we hear every year they found some earth like planet with beautiful cgi pcs to go with it well I have been hearing this crap for way too long i know when someone is full of crap and this sir is.
Oh, good grief. The sky is dark because light fades, and it fades to nothing after a while.
And no, you can’t “infer” galaxies you can’t see, with a “mathematical model.”