Nov 19 1989
From The Space Library
A team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Princeton University announced the discovery of the oldest and most distant object yet observed in the universe. The object was reported to be a quasar at a distance of 10 to 15 billion light-years from Earth, which may have formed when the universe was only about a billion years old. The discovery challenged conventional theories on the timetable for the formation of galaxies and galactic-sized bodies in the early universe. Previous observations had placed the age of most quasars at about 3 billion years after the Big Bang. The new observations were expected to produce major revisions in theories of how matter coalesced during the early universe. (NY Times, Nov 20/89; W Post, Nov 20/89; W Times, Nov 20/89; P Inq, Nov 20/89; B Sun, Nov 20/89)
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