Space Blob baffles scientists

From what I can gather with my superior A level Physics:

It's a very distant galaxy that is more massive than it should be (10 times more mass than galaxies of a similar age). Thus why the scientists are confuzzled.*





*May (quite likely) be wrong.
 
So, does that mean we're viewing the object as it would have been viewed 12.9 billion years ago?

I wonder what it looks like now....

Exactly.

Does make you wonder how it's developed in the 12.9 billion years.



Interesting stuff :)
 
You will be able to find out in 12.9 billion years time....

:D

Me thinks I'll be long gone by then :p

I think it's fantastic though really, current estimations say the universe is 13.7 billion years old - we can now confirm that it is at least 12.9 billion years old. So our estimations aren't far wrong... we only need the technology to see a further 0.8 billion light years away :o
 
It's not entirely our technology that is limiting us looking back any further it's the fact that light didn't exist for a period after the big bang.
 
using advanced image enhancing techniques given to me by some serious people "in the know" and using my consciousness to align the planets in the constellation of leo. I have managed to produce the below image of what we are looking at here.

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Level 1 enhancement
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Level 4 enhancement (constellation alignment complete)
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Level 6 enhancement
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Enhancement complete
 
It's not entirely our technology that is limiting us looking back any further it's the fact that light didn't exist for a period after the big bang.

hm? Come again?

Ah of course, for there to be light there must be stars... so until those stars got bright enough or even bright at all there would be nothing to see.

Surely if there was an explosion from the big bang that would give us light instantaneously though?
 
There are probably aliens buzzing the Yorkshire moors right now looking at this on TV thinking "damn, we've left the ****ing lights on again."
 
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