“With this achievement, the estimated number of galaxies in the universe had multiplied enormously — to 50 billion, five times more than previously expected,”
It seems that current estimates for this are higher, such as 100 billion in a 2020 article I saw. Anyone have an authoritative scientific source for the best current estimates?
50 billion galaxies (or 100) somehow doesn't actually seem so many. Considering that's on the same scale as the number of people on our tiny space rock. Yes each one has billions of stars inside, but still, we're talking about the entire universe.
Somehow, intuition suggests there must be more "stuff" beyond our observable universe.
here's https://phys.org/news/2017-01-universe-trillion-galaxies.htm... where it's 2 trillion. Which is 1 galaxy for every dollar in the US Coronovirus stimulus package or 256 galaxies per person. Which makes it also feel like an approachable number for the amount of galaxies in the universe.
It seems that current estimates for this are higher, such as 100 billion in a 2020 article I saw. Anyone have an authoritative scientific source for the best current estimates?
50 billion galaxies (or 100) somehow doesn't actually seem so many. Considering that's on the same scale as the number of people on our tiny space rock. Yes each one has billions of stars inside, but still, we're talking about the entire universe.
Somehow, intuition suggests there must be more "stuff" beyond our observable universe.