Himiko - Mysterious “Space Blob”

Posted by SpaceSightSeer on April 22, 2009 under Deep Space Imagery | Be the First to Comment

Scientificblogging previews an article from the May 2009 Astrophysical Journal. Researchers have located a mysterious “blob” 55 light-years across, 12.9 billion light years away with the mass of 40 billion suns. This one-of-a-kind distant object is intriguing to researchers. “Even for astronomers, we don’t understand,” Carnegie Institution researcher, Masami Ouchi told Space.com.

Update (4-30): Scientific Blogging has added a good video about Himiko that explains this phenomenon better than I could.