Artist’s depiction of a galaxy with a shining quasar at its center
NASA, ESA, J. Olmstead (STScI)
The fabric of space and time, or so-called physical reality, may be made up of small individual parts connected together. Preliminary analysis of the way matter orbits quasars suggests that evidence of this cosmic quilt can be found in the universe’s most extreme neighborhoods.
Much of the understanding we gain about the composition of the universe comes from examining matter at increasingly smaller scales. Jonathan Gollard says think about liquids.
(Tag translation) Cosmology
