About ten times more, to be more specific. And to be even more specific, somewhere around one or two trillion, compared to the 100-200 billion galaxies we previously thought was the total.
Now, to be fair, we haven't actually seen any of these new galaxies yet. Our telescopes aren't powerful enough to. But because of math, we know they should be out there. Otherwise, the numbers don't work out. I don't have a whole lot to say about this, other than "Cool, 10 times more galaxies." I mean, greater understanding of our universe is important, and obviously, this is something newsworthy, but basically, what this boils down to is "Gee, you know how the universe is just enormous? Well now it's even enormouser!" Yeah, spellcheck, I know that's not a word. Maybe I'll be a little more interested when we can actually see these new (very, very old) galaxies.
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