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Am I reading this wrong? According to the wiki article, the quasar is 16 bn light years away, but the light we see from it is only 10 bn years old?
by atonse 3y ago
Am I reading this wrong?
According to the wiki article, the quasar is 16 bn light years away, but the light we see from it is only 10 bn years old?
- sundae 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_of_the_universe
- atonse 3y agoDuh! Thanks. But we usually don’t speak that way about things that might be thousands or millions of light years away but I bet at those “small” scales the difference might be negligible in conversation.