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What is the largest carnivore that has ever existed?

In 1995, in Argentina, the largest known carnivorous dinosaur, called Giganotosaurus, was unearthed. The animal weighed 8 tons, had a huge, hammer-like head 153 centimeters long, the jaws were armed with sawtooth teeth.

Previously known to science, the largest predatory lizard tyrannosaurus weighed only 6 tons.

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Is the universe infinite?

Astronomers, using the term universe, mean by it space and all the bodies that fill it. Even the richest imagination is not enough to imagine everything that this concept includes. To make you understand the grandeur of the universe, you can explain this with the following example. A light year, that is, the distance that a ray of light travels in one year, is equal to 5460 billion kilometers.

Our Galaxy - the Milky Way, in which our solar system is located - has a length of about 100 light years. There are millions of other galaxies, the nearest of which are 000 away from ours, and the most distant are trillions of light years away. And all this is just a part of the universe known to us. In fact, it can be much larger! Astronomers are sure that this is indeed the case. The question is, how big is the universe? When scientists try to answer this question, they have to deal with the special properties of space itself.

According to modern theories, space curves around itself. This means that it is impossible to get "out of" space, because no matter how long you move along any straight line, it will always be, curving, to be "inside" space. How this happens can be explained with the following example. An airplane flying from Moscow to Vladivostok at the same height in the air describes a huge arc that repeats the curved surface of the Earth. If he flew in a straight line, then, having reached his final destination, he would have been many thousands of kilometers higher.

Astronomers believe that the same thing happens with any movement in space, with the only difference that the curvature of space is a much more complex phenomenon. It cannot be depicted in a drawing or with the help of any model, but can only be calculated using the laws of higher mathematics.

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