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Rare cosmic event beamed light at Earth from 8.5 billion light-years away
CNN ^ | 30 Nov 2022 | By Ashley Strickland,

Posted on 11/30/2022 11:15:24 PM PST by blueplum

An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds.

But the rare cosmic event actually occurred 8.5 billion light years away from Earth, when the universe was just a third of its current age โ€” and it has created more questions than answers....

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Astronomy; Chit/Chat; Science
KEYWORDS: 2022; 202202; astronomy; astrophysics; blackholes; flash; isolatedincidents; light

1 posted on 11/30/2022 11:15:24 PM PST by blueplum
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To: blueplum

“cosmic event actually occurred 8.5 billion light years away”

Boy, CNN is sure behind.


2 posted on 12/01/2022 12:00:09 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: blueplum

To view the past; all one need do is look up; wherever up is โ€ฆโ€ฆ.


3 posted on 12/01/2022 12:02:56 AM PST by no-to-illegals (The enemy has US surrounded. May God have mercy on them.)
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To: blueplum

Can I assume, that the beam of light, contained millions of democrat votes?


4 posted on 12/01/2022 12:33:18 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: Mark17

๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ ๐˜ข๐˜ด๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฉ๐˜ต, ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ด ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ค๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต ๐˜ท๐˜ฐ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ด?

I dare say that early voting has gotten out of hand if they voted that early!


5 posted on 12/01/2022 2:46:22 AM PST by Antihero101607
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To: Antihero101607
I dare say that early voting has gotten out of hand if they voted that early!

LOL. I guess thatโ€™s probably true. ๐Ÿ˜†๐Ÿค—

6 posted on 12/01/2022 3:58:43 AM PST by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: blueplum

But I thought that the universe was only 4.5 billion years old? Where was this light for the other 4 billion years. ?


7 posted on 12/01/2022 4:48:07 AM PST by Recompennation (Donโ€™t blame me my vote didnโ€™t count so meect)
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But I thought that the universe was only 4.5 billion years old? Where was this light for the other 4 billion years. ?

Stuck in a Greyhound bus station in Peoria

8 posted on 12/01/2022 4:50:58 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Gun laws empower criminals. Guns empower the people.)
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To: Recompennation

More like 14 billion years old. Not 4.5.


9 posted on 12/01/2022 5:24:15 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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To: blueplum

I read this on Infowars and considered posting it for a different reason:

The article I read failed to discuss the effects had this been a GRB (gamma ray burst).

It would be interesting to run the odds on such an event now that they have - for the first time - documented the Earth being directly in the path of a related, non-GRB event.

I do believe that some unexplained past extinction events were related to GRB unrelated to our Sun; this smacks as evidence it’s more common than they proffer.


10 posted on 12/01/2022 5:41:36 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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8.5 billion light years away from Earth

I can't even fathom something being that far away from earth. I often wonder what is beyond the furthest edge of the universe.....nothingness?

11 posted on 12/01/2022 5:45:07 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

“I can’t even fathom something being that far away from earth. I often wonder what is beyond the furthest edge of the universe.....nothingness?”

I wonder as well. Intellectual curiosity. But from a practical standpoint anything outside the Milky Way is essentially irrelevant to humankind.


12 posted on 12/01/2022 5:59:22 AM PST by plain talk
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