What is the largest thing in the universe?

The biggest single entity that scientists have identified in the universe is a supercluster of galaxies called the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. It's so wide that light takes about 10 billion years to move across the entire structure.
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What is bigger than a galaxy?

From largest to smallest they are: Universe, galaxy, solar system, star, planet, moon and asteroid.
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How many universes are there?

In a new study, Stanford physicists Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin have calculated the number of all possible universes, coming up with an answer of 10^10^16.
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What is the biggest black hole known?

They can fit multiple solar systems inside of them. Ton 618, the largest ultramassive black hole, appears at the very end of the video, which, at 66 billion times the mass of the Sun, is going to weigh very heavily on how we daydream about the cosmos moving forward.
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What's the biggest thing ever?

The biggest single entity that scientists have identified in the universe is a supercluster of galaxies called the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. It's so wide that light takes about 10 billion years to move across the entire structure.
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What is the Largest Thing in the Universe?



What is pulling our galaxy?

In a study published in the journal of Nature Astronomy, researchers found that the Milky Way is being pulled by the gravitational force of the dark matter halo surrounding the LMC at the speed of 71,600 miles per hour. This has resulted in the deformation of our galaxy, which is home to more than 500 solar systems.
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What's the biggest object in space?

The largest known 'object' in the Universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall. This is a 'galactic filament', a vast cluster of galaxies bound together by gravity, and it's estimated to be about 10 billion light-years across!
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What is the hottest thing in the universe?

The hottest thing in the Universe: Supernova

The temperatures at the core during the explosion soar up to 100 billion degrees Celsius, 6000 times the temperature of the Sun's core.
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Is galaxy or universe bigger?

Galaxies come in many sizes. The Milky Way is big, but some galaxies, like our Andromeda Galaxy neighbor, are much larger. The universe is all of the galaxies – billions of them!
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What is the fastest thing in the universe?

The fastest thing in the universe is the speed of light in vacuum. Nothing travels faster than the speed of light which is equal to 3 x 108 m/s.
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What is inside a black hole?

The singularity at the center of a black hole is the ultimate no man's land: a place where matter is compressed down to an infinitely tiny point, and all conceptions of time and space completely break down. And it doesn't really exist.
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Is Ton 618 a black hole?

With such high mass, Ton 618 may fall into a proposed new classification of ultramassive black holes. A black hole of this mass has a Schwarzschild radius of 1,300 AU (about 390 billion km in diameter) which is more than 40 times the distance from Neptune to the Sun.
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Will we ever reach the Great Attractor?

' 'Fortunately, the great attractor won't destroy our galaxy because we'll never reach it. About 5 billion years ago, dark energy began to dominate our universe.,' Dr Sutter told MailOnline. 'We don't know what dark energy exactly is, but we do know that it's causing the expansion of our universe to accelerate.
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What is bigger than the sun?

Betelgeuse, a red giant, is about 700 times bigger than the sun and about 14,000 times brighter. "We have found stars that are 100 times bigger in diameter than our sun. Truly those stars are enormous," NASA says on its SpacePlace website (opens in new tab).
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What is the second biggest thing on earth?

We know that the largest animal to live on the planet is the blue whale. The second biggest living thing to exist on the planet is the North Pacific right whale.
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Is the sun the biggest thing in space?

The Sun is the largest object in our solar system. The Sun's volume would need 1.3 million Earths to fill it. Its gravity holds the solar system together, keeping everything from the biggest planets to the smallest bits of debris in orbit around it.
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What is bigger UY Scuti or 618?

The largest star

Some would say the largest object in the universe is UY Scuti, the largest known star. It's a red supergiant with a mass “only” 7–10 times the mass of the Sun, but with a radius up to 1,708 times the size! That's only 0.3% the size of TON 618, but obviously still stupendously large.
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What colors are black holes?

A black hole has no colour of course. But what astronomers can see is the material pouring into it that becomes superheated gas. This gas is thought to change colour as it gets closer to the black hole.
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Do wormholes exist?

Wormholes are shortcuts in spacetime, popular with science fiction authors and movie directors. They've never been seen, but according to Einstein's general theory of relativity, they might exist.
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Does time stop in a black hole?

Time does stop at the event horizon of a black hole, but only as seen by someone outside the black hole. This is because any physical signal will get infinitely redshifted at the event horizon, thus never reaching the outside observer. Someone falling into a black hole, however, would not see time stop.
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Can we create a black hole?

Scientists have therefore started creating artificial black holes inside labs to study their properties. And one such experiment, carried out by scientists at the Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, has proved that Stephen Hawking had been right about black holes all along.
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Is light faster than darkness?

Darkness travels at the speed of light. More accurately, darkness does not exist by itself as a unique physical entity, but is simply the absence of light. Any time you block out most of the light – for instance, by cupping your hands together – you get darkness.
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Is anything faster than light?

So, according to de Rham, the only thing capable of traveling faster than the speed of light is, somewhat paradoxically, light itself, though only when not in the vacuum of space. Of note, regardless of the medium, light will never exceed its maximum speed of 186,282 miles per second.
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