Universe
The Universe The universe ( Latin : universus ) is all of space and time [a] and their contents, [10] including planets , stars , galaxies , and all other forms of matter and energy . The Big Bang theory is the prevailing cosmological description of the development of the universe. According to estimation of this theory, space and time emerged together 13.799 ± 0.021 billion years ago, [2] and the universe has been expanding ever since. While the spatial size of the entire universe is unknown, [3] the cosmic inflation equation tells us that it must have a minimum diameter of 23 trillion light years, [11] and it is possible to measure the size of the observable universe , which is approximately 93 billion light-years in diameter at the present day. The earliest cosmological models of the univ...