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Four Quasars Found Clustered Together Defy Current Cosmological Expectations

Posted by samzenpus on from the standing-out-in-a-crowd dept.

StartsWithABang writes: Get a supermassive black hole feeding on matter, particularly on large amounts of cool, dense gas, and you're likely to get a quasar: a luminous, active galaxy emitting radiation from the radio all the way up through the X-ray. Our best understanding and observations indicate that these objects should be rare, transient, and isolated; no more than two have ever been found close together before. Until this discovery, that is, where we just found four within a million light years of one another, posing a problem for our current theories of structure formation in the Universe.

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  1. Not to worry by SuperKendall · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is just he exception that proves the rule.

    It's when you find TWO exceptions, that you should start to worry about the rule itself...

    --
    "There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
    1. Re:Not to worry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ah you see, English, it's a bitch. Since in this case, 'prove' means 'tests'. The term is also used in 'proving grounds' for cars or other machinery. If the exception really is an exception, then it is proven that the rule ain't no rule at all.

  2. Re:Hey don't be biased by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Exactly! The science is settled!

    (new info found)

    Oh wait..., okay NOW it's settled!

    (new info found)

    Um, okay NOW! eh, I mean NOW, it's settled!

    (repeat ad infistupidum)