In the DC Multiverse are there only 52 universes or are there only 52 known universes?

To my knowledge originally there were an infinite number of universes but as of Infinite Crisis and 52 there are only 52.

There are 52 universe and not all of them have been used. Or at least we haven't been told they have. We know some of them.
However, New Earth is classed as Earth-0, so Does that make it 53? Or 52?

Infinite

" Infinite "

There's like 55. 52 plus New Earth, Earth-Prime, and Earth-247. There's also the Anti-Matter Earth.

WHAT ABOUT HYPERTIME???

New 52 is unknown

If it helps, here's my reading of the material. Earth-247 is explicitly destroyed, as of the Legion of Three Worlds (Final Crisis) story. It no longer exists. Hypertime is officially "not being used," but nobody said "it no longer exists." That said, there was a line in a (pre-52) Booster Gold issue about Booster pruning Hypertimelines (not to mention, the reference in the 52 story to Waverider being the "seer of Hypertime.") I'm not seeing Hypertime on the list that (...I think...) was referenced. So, either I got to the wrong list, or something has changed. The Legion story mentioned above said that Earth-Prime was re-created, but it never specified its relationship to the 52 universes. "New Earth" and "Earth 0" are now officially the same thing. (I think that Bizarro world is now Bizarro universe, and it may be Earth-29, nowadays.) What's interesting, and unresolved, is a statement that Dan Didio made around the time that the multiverse was returned. He said that each of the 52 has its own parallel dimensions, divergent timelines, and microverses. Presumably, this is still true. If Hypertime is also officially still around (even if it's not being used,) then there is no reason that a writer's imagination has to feel constrained. Anything's possible!

Oh...and as of the release of the new "multiverse map," Earth-Prime is now officially Earth 33.

@tgschermuly: That map is from The multiversity which occurs after final crisis, before the new 52.............in short that map is a map of the pre 52 multiverse, post final crisis

I don't think so. The map that I'm talking about was only released a week, or so, ago. The "new 52" started a couple of *years* ago.

Yep, the map is for the New52 Multiverse of... 52 universes. I would prefer to say there are 52 Known universes, because.... you never know when earth-52 is going to appear.

52

Marvel fanatics fail

DC has infinite number of universes

The new 52 multiverse consists of infinite universes, the above pic is from Earth 2 Futures End #1, terry sloan claims to have found countless versions of himself across the infinite vastness.

Furthermore there are several more references to the new 52 multiverse containing infinite universes, these include:

Earth 2 Worlds End #5 reveals that there is more than a multiverse:

@kingofkings1 said:

Earth 2 Worlds End #5 reveals that there is more than a multiverse:

Guess that makes sense. So far in the New 52, there's been a distinction between the multiverse and the omniverse.

Is the 52 universe thing still valid for characters like the endless and Lucifer? As lucifer created a multiverse similar to the presence that is above 52 universes (or should)