BOUNDLESS EXPANSE 3D

Edge of the Observable Universe

COSMIC HORIZON · as far as light can carry us
Edge of the Observable Universe
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DISTANCE about 46 billion light yearsNOTE not the edge of everything

There is a limit to what we can ever see: light needs time to travel, so our view ends at a horizon now about 46 billion light years away, stretched wide by cosmic expansion. It is not a wall, and the universe does not stop there; an observer out there would see their own bubble, with us near its edge. Beyond it is simply mail that has not arrived yet.

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