The Galactic Filaments and Sheets

Pic 13: Filaments of Galaxies.

The Universe has countless numbers of Galaxies. Each of

the dots in the above picture is a galaxy. There are

probably more than 100 billion galaxies in the observable

universe. Perhaps many Trillions more exist in the universe

we have not yet observed! Galaxies are usually separated

by distances on the order of millions of parsecs (or

megaparsecs). Intergalactic space (the space between

galaxies) is filled with a tenuous gas of an average density

less than one atom per cubic meter.

The majority of galaxies are organized into a hierarchy of

associations called clusters, which, in turn, can form larger

groups called superclusters. These larger structures are

generally arranged into sheets and filaments, which

surround immense voids in the universe.

Allah Subhanahu Wa Taala says:

By the heaven full of Hubuk ( paths, fibers, weave) (7)

The Great Wall (also called Coma Wall), is one of largest

known super-structures in the Universe. It is a filament or a

filament wall of galaxies which measure over 500 million

light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and 15

million light-years thick. It was discovered in 1989. It is not

known how much farther the wall extends due to the plane

of the Milky Way galaxy in which Earth is located. The gas

and dust from the Milky Way obscures the view of

astronomers and have so far made it impossible to

determine if the wall ends or continues on further than they

can currently observe! These sheets and filaments weave

together like a textile cloth. In this big weave the giant

galaxies are just like small glittering specs!

And there is some thing bigger than it!

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The Building of the Universe……….

At first, scientists thought that the universe is mostly

vacuum, and they gave it the name “space”. In the late

twentieth century, scientists have discovered something

new. They found that the universe is certainly like a

building made of small blocks. The conventional model for

galaxy evolution predicts that small galaxies in the early

Universe formed into the massive galaxies of today by

coalescing into clusters, superclusters, filaments and sheets.

These are the “small” lego-like building blocks that make

the structure or building of the universe.

Pic 13: The structure of the Universe. The small line on the top

shows a scale of 100 Million Light Years!

Lego-like “building blocks” initially detected by Hubble

likely contributed to the visual construction of the Universe

as we know it. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope

observations confirmed that these galaxies are some of the

smallest blocks of the Universe which is made like a

building. Look closely at the picture above and you may

see some patterns and architecture to it.

This structure has a geometry and architecture of its own.

There are “voids”, “walls”, cluster areas or “rooms”, vast

hallways and “passages”.

Current interpretations of astronomical observations

indicate that the age of the Universe is 13.73 billion years,

and that the diameter of the observable universe is at least

93 billion light years. This is just the part of the universe

that we can observe. Only Allah knows what else there is in

the universe and how big it really is. There is much work

that still need to be done in cosmology to even start to

appreciate the large-scale structure of the universe.

This is truly mind boggling….Something that that the mind

finds difficult to imagine. Is than some thing bigger than

this? Something that will make it all look like a spec of

dust?

Certainly there is!!!!!!!!

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There is something bigger so big that

it will make all of the above like a

spec of dust.

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