Increase in Galaxies to '2 Trillion'

According to a recent study, findings from the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that our universe has ten times more galaxies than previously thought. According to NASA's website, thanks to Hubble and other space observers, a group of scientists has realized that the universe is much busier than we thought. Analyzing data from the Hubble Telescope and other space telescopes, conducted by Christopher Conselice's team from the University of Nottingham in the UK, shows that at the time of the universe's formation, there were ten times more galaxies in a specific space than what is currently counted. Most of these galaxies were relatively small and dim, with masses comparable to the satellite galaxies surrounding the Milky Way. As these satellite galaxies merged to form larger galaxies, the number of galaxies in the universe decreased. This means that throughout the history of the universe's formation, the distribution of galaxies in space has not been uniform. This significant finding will soon be published in the Astrophysical Journal. Dr. Conselice states that these findings provide strong evidence that galaxy evolution has occurred throughout the history of the universe and has significantly reduced the number of galaxies. 'This gives us evidence supporting the validity of the top-down formation model of the universe.' One of the fundamental questions in astronomy is the number of galaxies present in the universe. It was previously thought that there were 200 billion galaxies in the universe, but these new findings suggest that this number should be multiplied by ten. Conselice and his team, by examining Hubble's images from deep space, matching this data with findings from other teams, and using a new mathematical model that allows them to estimate the number of currently unobservable galaxies, have reached this conclusion. They state that for the number of galaxies we currently know to match their mass, 90% of other galaxies in space (which are either very small and dim or very distant) must exist. These galaxies have merged throughout the history of the universe to become the larger galaxies we can observe today.