Alright, astronomers figure it’s 1.5M light-years wide and 2000M light-years away.
I’m gonna stir some pudding here.
If the universe is, as some contend, about 10,000 years old then the very farthest objects we see can’t be more than 10,000 light-years away (any farther, and the light wouldn’t have time to reach us yet).
Crunch the numbers, based on the angle of view the object covers in the sky (however far away it is).
(1,500,000 / 2,000,000,000) * 10,000 = 7.5
So ... under the “young earth” theory, it’s no more than 7.5 light-years wide. Which means, if it really is blowing material out at near speed of light, the formation we see only took about 4 years to create (time from material ejection to current apparent reach) ... so we should see substantial change, say as newly ejected material emerges and travels to current outer reach, within 4 years (a lot less than that, actually, to at least see some notable change). ...which...we aren’t, haven’t, and won’t.
Thoughts?
I’m figuring the speed of light is too fast, and/or celestial bodies too big, to fit in a universe that (ostensibly) small.
(Applies SPF900)
I guess if the universe were a mere 10,000 years old that would be true. However, the best estimate today is somewhere around 14.5 billion.