"Astronomers have pushed NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object's light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is approximately 13.7 billion years."
"The object's light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is approximately 13.7 billion years."
If we started off with some Big Bang singularity 13.7 billion years ago, and this object is now 13.2 billion light years away, that means that it averaged close to light- speed away from us?
Given that objects in our universe are accelerating away from each other, how does any object average near light-speed?
Unless ... it popped into existence 13.2 billion years ago 13.2 billion light-years away, and its light is just now reaching us.
Given that objects in our universe are accelerating away from each other, how does any object average near light-speed?
I think current theory says the universe was expanding as much faster than the speed of light in the initial bang, slowing down significantly at some point afterwards. The laws of physics has supposedly "changed" though that would probably be clarified as not changing per se, but rather just not fully understood.