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Title: Giant Mystery Blob Discovered Near Dawn of Time Post by: Allhallowsday on May 17, 2009, 09:54:00 PM Giant Mystery Blob Discovered Near Dawn of Time
A newly found primordial blob may represent the most massive object ever discovered in the early universe , researchers announced today. The gas cloud, spotted from 12.9 billion light-years away, could signal the earliest stages of galaxy formation back when the universe was just 800 million years old. "I have never heard about any [similar] objects that could be resolved at this distance," said Masami Ouchi, a researcher at the Carnegie Institution in Pasadena, Calif. "It's kind of record-breaking." A light-year is the distance light travels in a year, about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). An object 12.9 billion light-years away is seen as it existed 12.9 billion years ago, and the light is just now arriving. The cloud predates similar blobs, known as Lyman-Alpha blobs, which existed when the universe was 2 billion to 3 billion years old. Researchers named their new find Himiko, after an ancient Japanese queen with an equally murky past... http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090422/sc_space/giantmysteryblobdiscoveredneardawnoftime (http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090422/sc_space/giantmysteryblobdiscoveredneardawnoftime) Title: Re: Giant Mystery Blob Discovered Near Dawn of Time Post by: RCMerchant on May 18, 2009, 06:56:16 AM I love this kinda stuff! Anything to do with space facinates me. :thumbup:
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