Re:Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our N...
by jhgb on Sunday August 29, 2021 @01:01PM
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You do realize at the very least the significant difference between "local" and "nearby"?
Re:Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our N...
by GavinMcG on Sunday August 29, 2021 @02:26PM
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You do realize at the very least that different academic fields have developed different lingo, and that words therefore mean different things in different settings?
Re:Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our N...
by jhgb on Saturday September 04, 2021 @05:04AM
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You do realize at the very least that even if that is true of some words, it's not necessarily true of all words?
Re:Three Super-Massive Black Holes Merging Together in Our N...
by dogma1138 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @02:32PM
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Can you read the definition? “Local Universe - Studies of the nearby universe encompass a region of approximately 1 billion light years in radius, over which the effects of cosmic evolution are small.”
Space or outer space isn’t a term commonly used in cosmology which is the field of study of the chronology and evolution of the universe.
And in this context it makes perfect sense within 1b light years we can observe the universe as it is more or less in its current state, so looking at something 100 light years away or 1b isn’t that different. Once you go past that line you begin to go further and further in time so different stages within the evolution of the universe take precedence over local phenomena.
It doesn’t indicate that there are other universes out there just due to the speed of light what we can observe can be drastically different than what is around us as well as what is actually going anywhere else at the current age of the universe.