Where do scientist think the center of our universe is? I need info as soonas possible!?

Answer 1

There is no centre of the universe! According to the standard theories of cosmology, the universe started with a "Big Bang" about 14 billion years ago and has been expanding ever since. Yet there is no centre to the expansion. It is the same everywhere. The Big Bang should not be visualised as an ordinary explosion. The universe is not expanding out from a centre into space. The whole universe itself is expanding and it is doing so equally at all places, as far as we can tell.

In 1929 Edwin Hubble announced that he had measured the speed of galaxies at different distances away and had discovered that the further they were away from us the faster they were receding. This seems to suggest that we are at the centre of the expanding universe, but it must be remembered that motion is relative. If the universe is expanding uniformly according to Hubble's law it will appear to do so from any galaxy.

If we see a galaxy B moving away from us at 10,000 km/s, an alien in galaxy B will see our galaxy A moving away from it at 10,000 km/s in the opposite direction. If there is another galaxy C twice us far away in the same direction as B we will see it moving at 20,000 km/s and the alien will see it moving at 10,000 km/s.

A B C
from A 0km/s 10,000km/s 20,000km/s
from B -10,000km/s 0km/s 10,000km/s


So, from the point of view of the alien at B everything is expanding away from it, which ever direction it looks in, just the same as it does for us.

Answer 2

The "center" of the Universe is not possible to find and very probably does not exist. The center of the known Universe is the Earth because we have looked out in all directions for about the same distances.

Answer 3

The answer to this question actually depends a lot on what your understanding of "our universe" is.

If you are talking about the observable universe, then the center is the point equidistant from all detectable (observable) points of our universe. Thus the Earth is the centre of our universe. (NB black holes, worm holes, discontinuities of course make things difficult here but you get what I mean).

If you are talking about the theoretical universe that lies outside our detectable universe, then we have currently detected insufficient information to determine the centre of the universe.

If you are talking about a multiple universe theory then you might have to redefine what you mean by centre.


Now Ash, interestingly enough, obviously subscribes to the theory put forward by Douglas Adams (Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy), viz:

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something more bizarrely inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Answer 4

If the scientists can determine the shape, start and end points of the universe, they can find the center too!

Answer 5

I am the center of the universe. You may quote me.

Answer 6

no where, as the universe has not been searched/studied entirely. when it will be done, i dn't think we would exist.
center of the solar system is the sun...be happy with this statement for the timing.

Answer 7

sure, it truly is accessible. and that i imagine if an alien race became thousands of thousands of years more suitable stepped ahead, then it may be like attempting to talk with ants. yet i'm particular they could understand that. perhaps they are the following and preserving invisibly because they understand how detrimental it may be. in my opinion, given the nature of area, it already sounds like we are in a celestial goldfish bowl; trapped by technique of huge time and area. lack of expertise could already be upon us. :]

Answer 8

there is no center as universe is infinite

Answer 9

SUN is the centre of the universe...

Answer 10

There is no preferential center.