It might have been considered that there are many more unexplored thousands of distant galaxies out in the universe. But a new study has acted as a myth-breaker as it has found that there may be less galaxies present out in the universe than consider earlier.

Researchers from Michigan State University have come up with a new theory as per which the estimated number of most distant galaxies, has been reduced by 10 to 100 times.

Brian O'Shea, MSU associate professor of physics and astronomy, said, "Earlier estimates placed the number of faint galaxies in the early universe to be hundreds or thousands of times larger than the few bright galaxies that we can actually see with the Hubble Space Telescope".

For the research, the team has taken the help of National Science Foundation's Blue Waters supercomputer. Using it, the researchers made simulations to know the formation of galaxies in early universe.

The supercomputer led the team to simulate thousands of galaxies at a time. The researchers said the simulated galaxies were consistent with the ones discovered and confirmed. But the simulations did not reveal about the increasing number of faint galaxies.

Rather than increasing, O'Shea said the number of such galaxies was almost flat. Simulations have suggested that there are actually less faint galaxies than though before. "Our work suggests that there are far fewer faint galaxies than one could previously infer", affirmed O'Shea.