The Largest Objects in the Universe

Today we'll embark on a journey across the vast expanse of the

universe

, so join me as we explore the five

largest

objects

in the observable

universe

, from the red giant Jupiter with its 400 mile per hour winds to the newly discovered Arconius, A super galaxy is estimated to be half a million times more massive than our Milky Way, so get ready for something out of this world. Adventure, let's jump abroad, the red giants. Today's episode could be a nice and simple list of the five

largest

galactic clusters, but that would be a bit boring and repetitive, there are many ways to describe what a group of galaxies looks like and I would like you to watch this video until the end because screen time is important to me, so instead we're going to go through four.

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that are the largest in the category of objects that they fall into until we get to the largest object in the universe because I don't want to disappoint you, since the early days of amateur astronomy our eyes have been drawn to the red giant. that dominate the night sky are so wonderful that the Romans named them after the king of the gods, the master of the sky, Jupiter.

When we think of galactic record breakers, we may not think of our own backyard as their homes, but of The truth is that Jupiter is almost the largest planet we have ever discovered, capable of holding the entire Earth inside more than 130 times. This makes it so massive that its gravitational pull is actually slowly stealing our own moon from us, moving it towards the Giant at a rate of about three centimeters each year, so it's not going very fast even though they get more big in 2013, scientists discovered a true Goliath located 440 light years away in the office of the Arcus constellation orbiting the 42b star rocks.

There they found the gaseous hypergiant rocks 42bb. Behemoth is 2.5 times the diameter of Jupiter and is estimated to have a mass nine times that of the red giant. It has surpassed what scientists believe are the upper limits of what a planet could be. So how did such a large planet form properly? I have no idea, now we do know that the 42bb rocks, the catchy name, are an extreme stellar object in more cases than just their size, it is five times farther from its star than Pluto is from our sun and it takes about 2,000 years to completing a single Ultimately, this is what led scientists to conclude that the 42bb rocks were not always destined to be a planet, but are actually destined to be a star that simply failed to light up.

Jupiter is estimated to have winds that regularly reach 400 miles per hour and is estimated. 42 BB de la Roca has winds that reach four times that amount. Scientists also believe that due to their immense size, the 42 BB rocks may have an entire asteroid belt within their atmosphere. It has also been modeled that the planet can produce so much heat that it could be possible. live on one of its hundreds of moons To put this into perspective, if Rock's 42bb were placed in the same place as Jupiter, we would see an orb about half the size of the moon in the sky each night and its gravitational pull would be enough to affect our tides and cause tsunamis around the world, but even those numbers pale in comparison to what is coming, number two: the dethroned dog 1.2 kilo parsecs from Earth or 3900 light years is the gigantic fiery plasma ball called VY Canis Majoris located in the constellation of Canis Major, also known as the Big Dog, was first discovered in 1801 and was quickly identified as one of the brightest stars in the night sky, leading many scientists to believe that it would be one of the largest stars we have ever known. discover when science advanced enough to measure it we discovered that Canis Majoris is 1420 times the diameter of our sun, this means that if the center of this Leviathan were placed in the center of our star, its outer corona would reach beyond Jupiter and If you were to travel around the surface of this monster at the speed of light, it would take you six minutes to circumnavigate it at the speed of light, this compares to the moderate 14 seconds it takes our sun to discover how gigantic the songbirds are.

VY May Major, scientists were beyond It was believed to push what was known as the Hayashi limit. This was a theory that no star could exceed three billion times the volume of our sun or it would collapse in on itself. Vui Kanis Majoris measures about 2.7 billion times the volume of our son, so it's damn close to the Haishi limit! Oh, it's the stern belief of astrophysicists until 2012. Oh, and a star that would eclipse even VY Canis Majoris was discovered as discovered by the Extremely Scientifically Named Very Large Telescope or VLT, located in Chile about 9,500 light years away.

From Earth, the ever-recognized star U and Scotty located in the constellation Scutum The star was not new to astronomers, but original estimates of its size had always been based on its relatively low luminosity, about 900 times the size of our sun. , it was only when The VLT took a closer look and discovered that Scotty actually measures approximately 1708 times the diameter of our sun, meaning that not only is it much larger in size than v and Kane is Majoris, but it breaks the limit of previously cemented Hayashi. In pieces for comparison, if UI scarty were placed at the same point as our own sun, its outer corona would not only engulf Jupiter but would also engulf Uranus, Neptune and even Pluto.

How scutty reached his absolutely crazy size is unknown, but there is one thing. We know it is not stable, in fact, scientists anticipate that both UI Scotty and Y Canis Majoris may, in fact, be long dead. The extreme size of both means that at this end of their lives, rather than collapsing relatively harmlessly into a neutron star, each star is expected to produce the most violent explosions in the universe (supernovae), as it takes almost 4,000 years to fly from VY Canis Majoris and almost 9,000 years for the light from uy scooty to reach us, most scientists believe that this has already happened and that when the light finally reaches us it will be like a second sun in the sky, fortunately, although apart from illuminating our night, scientists have also agreed that we are probably out of reach of any dangerous part of the supernova, although when it comes to the size of the stars, they have also been wrong that before the number three, the cosmic giant alchemius oh is the name in greek mythology of the king of all giants, it was said that he was capable of passing over even the most powerful mountain or crushing the gods themselves between his feet, appropriately, the largest singular cosmic object ever discovered shares its name, it is located 1.1 gigapas x or 3.5 billion light years from Earth and that is where we can find this absolutely titanic galaxy, of course, this means that the light that We are currently this galaxy older than life on Earth, so how big is Alchiorius?

Well, to explain that we first need to put it into perspective, so let's start with the Milky Way. Our galaxy is approximately 52,000 light years from one side to the other. So let's take a look at our nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, the same galaxy that in about 100 million years will collide with ours, so we have to expect Andromeda to be about a hundred thousand light years away from one. Edge to the other and it is the largest galaxy in what we call the local group, the galactic cluster that we are in and while we are at it, it is worth noting that our galactic cluster is only about 10 million light years away Edge to Edge alchemy, on the other hand, is 16 million light years from one edge to the other, meaning that if it were in the same place as our own galaxy, it would occupy our entire local group alone as a subject common on this list.

Scientists questioned how Alchionis is able to maintain such an incredible size and the answer is that at its core there must be one of the largest black holes ever observed. Scientists have estimated that the black hole at the center of this galaxy measures approximately 500,000 times more massive than our already supermassive black hole, of course, not to mention that the galaxy was not discovered until 2022 thanks to the new low frequency array or low far, one of the newest and most advanced radio telescope arrays on the entire planet. As such, scientists predict that as we look deeper into space we are likely to find more massive galaxies, not to mention the questions Alchemius raises.

The galaxy's light is 3.5 billion years old and eight of the 10 largest galaxies ever discovered are more than 2.5 billion liars away, so why haven't we found supergalaxies near us? According to the Big Bang theory, matter should be distributed equally throughout the Universe, but that is not what we have seen, instead we have seen a concentration of hypergalaxies only in the depths of the universe, this has led to some theories that there exists a great Cosmic Force that prevents galaxies from forming like this, some Force that tore apart all the powerful galaxies number four, you will need an even larger telescope at this point we are faced with a philosophical question what exactly is an object, is it a galaxy, an object or is it a collection of much smaller objects and, if so, what is larger than a galaxy and counts as an object. where we get to galactic clusters, groups of galaxies that rotate around each other in mysterious ways and by mysterious we really mean mysterious, we still don't know what causes galactic clusters to form, yes gravity is a potential answer, but do we look towards the deep space?

The common thing we see is that everything is moving away except things in our own galactic cluster, and in fact we see the same thing with other galactic clusters: they are not tearing apart but rather running towards each other as they move away from us this It doesn't make sense how it is possible for galaxies in a cluster to attract each other and at the same time move away from other clusters. This mystery deepened with the discovery of the Great Wall. The Great Wall Hercules Corona Borealis is located 4.5 billion light years away. of Earth in the constellations of Hercules Corona Lyra and Draco can be found just beyond a patch of space known as the great void which stands out for being almost completely empty and we will return to that later, the gray wall is a collection Of some of the oldest galaxies we've discovered, including several of the largest ever found, with alkyanias on the wrong side of the great void not to be counted as part of it, scientists have absolutely no idea how it formed and its existence denies ideas such as gravity forms galactic clusters due to their large size, how big is it? 10 billion light years from edge to edge for comparison, the observable universe is only 93 billion light years in diameter, meaning it takes up one ninth of the entire observable universe.

As? Can any structure that large hold together and the answer is that we don't know yet? Despite all that, the Great Wall is dwarfed by our number one largest object in the universe and that's fear number five of the dark, let's take a step back. Wait a minute and look at that big void we mentioned earlier, it makes absolutely no sense to exist when the Big Bang happened. The current theory is that nothing else existed and therefore there should be a uniform distribution of matter and energy throughout space. A universe with such vast expanses of nothingness should simply be impossible.

Equally vast expanses with more matter than there is around them, like the Great Wall, should also be impossible, but clearly they are not. So what is going on? Oh, it's just a question for the scientists at CERN. attempted to respond with the opening of the Large Hadron Collider in 2008. The collider was designed to smash particles at nearly the speed of light to observe how the Big Bang may have occurred and it did so in the hope that the resulting miniature explosions would model explosion in doing so, scientists discovered what they already knew. Mata would be distributed throughout the empty space evenly, there were no large clumps or large voids.

To explain what was happening, they discovered Fritz Zwitsky's theory dating back to 1933. Zwitzki invented the theory of what he called Dark Matter. This is matter or energy that is not observable, understandable, cannot be experienced, and cannot be measured in any meaningful way. Somehow, EG, the scientific definition of something that does not exist for much of Zwitzki's life, the theory did not gain traction, but was suddenly put back into the spotlight. The reason for this, using the experiments ofcollision of particles, scientists were able to model the universe. and calibrate how much must be dark matter or dark energy and that was when they discovered the true magnitude of this unknowable Force.

Scientists discovered that only four percent of the universe is observable in it, the rest is dark matter, they later explained. scientists that what is pushing away from us everything we can see is dark energy, which makes up about 60% of dark matter as such, the largest single object in the universe, not that it is really an object, since it is not we can see it, it is dark matter, which constitutes 96 of everything