This is complicated. Given the accelerating expansion of the universe, there's an eventual "horizon" where light beyond that limit will never manage to get here, simply because the empty space between here and there will expand faster than the light can make up the distance. My understanding is that under current cosmological models, a likely scenario is that eventually (on the order of multiple billion years), everything beyond our local gravitationally-bound group of galaxies (us, Andromeda, and a few hangers-on) will be 100% invisible forever. Kinda makes you wonder what distant-future astronomers might think of the old tales of "galaxy clusters" or "cosmic structure formation".
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This is complicated. Given the accelerating expansion of the universe, there's an eventual "horizon" where light beyond that limit will never manage to get here, simply because the empty space between here and there will expand faster than the light can make up the distance. My understanding is that under current cosmological models, a likely scenario is that eventually (on the order of multiple billion years), everything beyond our local gravitationally-bound group of galaxies (us, Andromeda, and a few hangers-on) will be 100% invisible forever. Kinda makes you wonder what distant-future astronomers might think of the old tales of "galaxy clusters" or "cosmic structure formation".