this article is the coolest thing ive read in a while. "a newly found primordial blob" -named himiko, some 12.9 billion light years away was spotted and is one of the oldest and biggest objects ever seen. at 55,000 light years across it is half the span of our galaxy. there are several ideas of what it could be, a halo around a supermassive blackhole, a galactic collision, outgoing wind from a star nursery or possibly a giant galaxy. the object is believed to be from 800 million years after the big bang (tho the big bang is still a theory).

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090422-space-blob.html

This post was edited by juliusjuice on Apr 27 2009 10:18pm

800 million... now, I dont have my timeline with me, but... was matter even forming at 800million?

It is clearly the waste of a giant space faring behemoth.

This post was edited by Conri on Apr 27 2009 11:29pm

I don't think luckyduck's girlfriend can travel that far from food. Unless she's eating planet.

nice

hey

that's where I live

Lightyears measure distance not time.

800 mill years after the big bang... this means this object is old, as the universe is 13.5 bill years old

sheeei. aint no mysuree. dasmah dick.

That's pretty big.