[Newsbot]

Title: Stellar explosion reveals most distant known object in universe
Category: Science
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-04-28 14:52:42

[hurley_108]

Any news on how this affects the "blob"?

[Zipperfish]

Intellesting. I thought that black holes were more something that happened later on in the universe, as stars collpased. But this one happened a mere 630 million years after the Big Bang.

[DrCaleb]

^^ That's exactly why it is interesting. They must have formed within a few million years, and been massive to go through their fuel that quickly.

So Hurley, sorry but I lol'd. Given your avatar, you should not cast stones. Which blob are you referring to?

[Zipperfish]

The stars must have been peculiar. I know that there are stars called hypergiants (actually I didn't know--I just looked it up) that only last a few million years; they're unstable.