Astronomers Solve Mystery Of Enormous Space Blob

You probably haven’t heard of SSA22-Lyman-alpha blob 1, but rest assured, telescope jockeys have been scratching their heads over it for years. Now, a team of astronomers has finally figured out what’s happening inside the blob that’s causing it to light up.

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CrazyNeutrino said:

Astronomers Solve Mystery Of Enormous Space Blob

You probably haven’t heard of SSA22-Lyman-alpha blob 1, but rest assured, telescope jockeys have been scratching their heads over it for years. Now, a team of astronomers has finally figured out what’s happening inside the blob that’s causing it to light up.

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I don’t dispute the discovery, but it seems incredible if not impossible that the arguably largest objects in the universe, the Lyman alpha blobs, are lit up simply by a few starburst galaxies. The scale is incompatible, unless I’m missing something.