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re: Astronomers identify what is believed to be the most luminous object in the universe
Posted on 2/20/24 at 6:14 pm to L.A.
Posted on 2/20/24 at 6:14 pm to L.A.
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The quasar, as bright as 500 trillion suns
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its light has taken 12 billion years to reach us
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estimated to be between 17 billion and 19 billion times the mass of the sun
My brain can not fathom those numbers.
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Posted on 2/20/24 at 6:48 pm to Tuscaloosa
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My brain can not fathom those numbers.
Just break it down to unites that make more sense, like this guys does, and the math is a lot easier to work with.
Posted on 2/21/24 at 5:57 am to Tuscaloosa
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My brain can not fathom those numbers.
This is the part that I can't really get a grasp of understanding on.
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located so far from Earth that its light has taken 12 billion years to reach us, meaning it is seen as it was when the 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just under 2 billion years old.
Is the light we are seeing coming at us like a movie playing on a screen and we are seeing it live, but 12 billion years delayed? I can buy that, but does that light not get reflected, deflected, and ultimately changed in that distance and time that it travels, to where we really have no idea what it is by the time it gets here?
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