However, most scientists throughout the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th century presumed that the universe itself was Steady State and eternal, with maybe stars coming and going but no changes occurring at the largest scale known at the time.
Porén, a maioría dos científicos ao longo do século XIX e nas primeiras décadas do XX asumían que o Universo era un estado estable e eterno, no que podía haber estrelas que ían e viñan pero non cambios que ocorresen na gran escala coñecida do tempo.