May 13, 20233 yr They don`t come bigger than this, now we know what`s going to happen to earth. Astronomers have seen the largest explosion yet in space • The Register Raymond Fry.
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May 13, 20233 yr Eight billion light years away. Why do other galaxies have all the fun and excitement? Dugald Walker
May 14, 20233 yr 8 hours ago, dmwalker said: Why do other galaxies have all the fun and excitement? They placed higher in the lottery. Someday our galaxy's number will come up. Noel The tires are worn. The shocks are shot. The steering is wobbly. But the engine still runs fine.
May 14, 20233 yr 17 hours ago, dmwalker said: Eight billion light years away. Why do other galaxies have all the fun and excitement? It was the good old times 🙂
May 14, 20233 yr From the article: "The supermassive black hole is located eight billion light years away, and is believed to have formed when the universe was around six billion years old - less than half of its current age." So the article tells us the time when the black hole was formed (not necessarily when the explosion took place). So the explosion must've happened anywhere from the beginning of the black hole, 8 billion years ago, to any time later. The light from the explosion had to travel to Earth for 8 billion years for us to even see it, that is a given. Now scientists estimate the age of the whole universe as being 13.9 billion years. The black hole was formed when the universe was 6 billion years old so the black hole (not necessarily the explosion) appeared 7.9 billion years ago. How than can we even see this? As far as i can see the figures don't add up...but i probably make a huge thinking mistake somewhere.😀 Edited May 14, 20233 yr by Wildblue MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Plus | Intel Core i9-10900K @ 5.3GHz | 64GB Corsair Vengeance | Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3090 | 500 GB M.2 NVMe for win | 2TB M.2 NVMe for FS2024 | TrackIr v5 | Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo | Thrustmaster Hotas Warthog Eric from EHAM, a flying Dutchman.
May 14, 20233 yr 2 hours ago, Wildblue said: As far as i can see the figures don't add up...but i probably make a huge thinking mistake somewhere. The problem is that what doesn't make the headlines is that these figures are probably plus or minus one or two billion light years. That's also why the Methuselah Star isn't older than the universe, as some people like to claim. Edited May 14, 20233 yr by dmwalker Dugald Walker
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