Posted on 05/31/2016 7:12:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: How did the universe evolve from such a smooth beginning? To help understand, computational cosmologists and NASA produced the featured time-lapse animated video depicting a computer simulation of part of the universe. The 100-million light-year simulation starts about 20 million years after the Big Bang and runs until the present. After a smooth beginning, gravity causes clumps of matter to form into galaxies which immediately begin falling toward each other. Soon, many of them condense into long filaments while others violently merge into a huge and hot cluster of galaxies. Investigating of potential universe attributes in simulations like this have helped shape the engineering design the James Webb Space Telescope, currently scheduled for launch in late 2018.
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[Video Credit: Donna Cox (AVL NCSA/U. Illinois) et al., NASA's GSFC, AVL, NCSA]
The telescope that ate astronomy.
Made me wonder and theorize about things like the great attractor. What if we are now in the process watching a super galaxy being formed.
As galaxies swallow up smaller neighbors, perhaps groups of galaxies will clump together in the future to make increasingly bigger galaxies with bigger and bigger black holes in the center, until there is just the one giant galaxy in our neighborhood of space.
It would take billions if not trillions of years for this to happen, but, it COULD be a final outcome in our path through the universe.
Isn’t speculation Fun!
The coalescing of super galaxies results in black hole so massive that it bursts through our space-time continuum into another universe...where it arrives with a “big bang.”
Exactly!
I find thinking about things like that fascinating!
Well yes, the Sloan galactic wall is large! It, along with other the other walls are the largest structures in the know universe (unless you count the voids as structures).
But, with the ‘dark flow’ towards the Great Atractor, who is to say what happens when we get there.
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