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Jun 24, 2019

The Universe is 14 Billion Years Old But Visible Universe is 92 Billion Light Years Wide

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The Universe is 13.7 billion years old.

About five billion years ago, an energy field that we call dark energy became important. Dark energy is a repulsive form of gravity, which means that the expansion of the universe isn’t slowing down, it’s accelerating.

After 9 billion years of the expansion of space slowing down, it’s now speeding up.

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