Recent measurements reveal that the Universe is at least 150 billion light-years in diameter. For comparison, its age is estimated to be about 13.7 billion years.
To arrive at that age, scientists had to measure light (or electromagnetic radiation) coming from the outermost borders of the Universe. This radiation, specifically known as the cosmic microwave background radiation is a throwback to the youngest years of the Universe. So if it had to take 13.7 billion years for light coming from the outermost regions to reach us, then we should be expecting a diameter within that order of magnitude. Simply put, around twice that value or 27.4 billion light-years. But we’re seeing a number much larger than that.
This value, however, only makes sense if our Universe’s size were constant. Studies have shown that that isn’t the case. In fact, separate observations have shown that the Universe is actually expanding. To top it all, it is confirmed that it does so at an accelerated rate.
Now one light year is 5,865,696,000,000 miles/9,460,800,000,000 kilometers – meaning the universe in diameter is estimated to be 150,000,000,000 multiplied by 5,865,696,000,000 miles/9,460,800,000,000 kilometers.
Which equals 1, 419,120,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 Kilometers!
I can’t even begin to imagine how long that must be … now given that distance, what does the bible say about the size of our God?