Thursday 26 November 2020

cosmology - How can a quasar be 29 billion light-years away from Earth if Big Bang happened only 13.8 billion years ago?



I was reading through the Wikipedia article on Quasars and came across the fact that the most distant Quasar is 29 Billion Light years. This is what the article exactly says



The highest redshift quasar known (as of June 2011[update]) is ULAS-J1120+0641, with a redshift of 7.085, which corresponds to a proper distance of approximately 29 billion light-years from Earth.



Now I come to understand that the Big Bang singularity is believed to be around 13.8 Billion years ago.


So how is this possible? Does the presence of such a quasar negate the Big Bang Theory?



I'm not a student of Physics and was reading this out of (whimsical) curiosity. Is there something I'm missing here or the "proper distance" mentioned in the fact is a concept that explains this?


Edit: My Bad! Here's how..


A simple google search led me to this article which says the farthest quasar found is 12.9 billion LYs and not 29 billion.
So in the end we have just proven that wikipedia needs more moderation.




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