Most distant object in universe

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Astronomers have spotted the afterglow of a self-destructing star 13.1 billion light years from Earth.

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[coscorolo]

FINALLY THEY CAUGHT MY FART ON YOUTUBE

[gjhkhjlo]

WTF i was watching minecraft

[poplarpublications]

Evolutionist crap. Always need millions of years to push their religion.

[repulic5]

0:16 so THATS were vegeta's galick gun ended up!

hmmm i wonder where all those kamehameha waves ended up 0_o

[pseudorandomly]

@NickMinaj69

Search for "hypervelocity star" and you'll find lots of material. In particular, there'll be a hit on hubblesite for "Hyperfast Star Was Booted from Milky Way" about a star designated HE 0437-5439. You may also be interested in a search for "intergalactic globular cluster" -- entire globular clusters that roam between the galaxies. NGC 2419 *may* be one, in fact (there is some doubt).

[NickMinaj69]

@pseudorandomly I wasn't following the conversation, just read this one comment. Do you know the name or where I can find further information about the lone star in the Local Group? I'm curious, I've never heard of this before, I'd love to know more.

[pseudorandomly]

@NickMinaj69

You are mostly correct, but not completely. Galaxy collisions can draw out long tidal tails, from which it is possible that individual stars could escape altogether. In addition, it is *known* that stars can be ejected from a galaxy by gravitational interactions near the core; not only is this possible in theory, but we have observations of at least one such runaway star in the Local Group that belongs to no galaxy.

[pseudorandomly]

@NickMinaj69

I'm not sure you're following the point of the conversation we were having. The OP was confused about "object", "galaxy", and "supernova" in some manner that I was unable to fully understand. I was postulating an isolated star in an attempt to figure out the source of his confusion.

[NickMinaj69]

@pseudorandomly The only starts "not in galaxies" are globular clustarts, which exist in galaxy halo's. Which are in the vicinity of galaxies, but a star just sitting in space, not orbiting a galaxy, is non-existant

[NickMinaj69]

@pseudorandomly Because stars do not exist if not in part of galaxies. The only way to be formed is by the compaction of molecular clouds (which only exist in galaxies) and once they are formed, they are trapped by the gravity of the massive black hole in the center.

[CKelaiditis]

I just got fully erectile.