Answer by Phil R for Conundrum involving distance to object, universal...
I was directed here after asking a similar question at Age of the universe vs. it's size.I'm still confused. The universe is estimated to be 13.7-13.8 billion years old & that is the observed...
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Couldn't comment as I do not have the proper rep yet, but regarding @user3355020 and the answer provided by @Gerald, (and me being far less educated than I ever could have imagined before reading...
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The 13 billion lightyears distance of the quasar mean 13 billion lightyears light-travel distance. In other words, the light took 13 billion years to reach us, independent of the distance the quasar is...
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I was recently reading about a galaxy or quasar (not sure which, so lets just say quasar) where the estimated distance to this thing was some very significant fraction of the age of the universe. What...
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