If I noodled out the math correctly, all the galaxies Edwin Hubble was able to study were within 100,000,000 light years of earth (due to limitations of the equipment and film available in his era) and this was before 1930.
Less than 100 years later, LIGO has detected a black hole merger 2,900,000,000 light years away. The volume of space out to 2.9 billion light years, compared to the volume of space out to 'only' 100 million light years is a factor of 25,000 times greater.
And the black hole merger wasn't just detected, we know their combined mass is nearly 50 times that of our sun !!
Less than 100 years later, LIGO has detected a black hole merger 2,900,000,000 light years away. The volume of space out to 2.9 billion light years, compared to the volume of space out to 'only' 100 million light years is a factor of 25,000 times greater.
And the black hole merger wasn't just detected, we know their combined mass is nearly 50 times that of our sun !!
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