[Moral_]

Is it a balloon? /s

“One possibility is that X7’s gas and dust were ejected at the moment when two stars merged,” Ciurlo said. “In this process, the merged star is hidden inside a shell of dust and gas, which might fit the description of the G objects. And the ejected gas perhaps produced X7-like objects.”

This is pretty interesting, so much ejection due to a merger that the light is no longer visible.

Space stories like this always melt my mind because this has all happened already , but we're observing it now.

[koheripbal]

> this has all happened already , but we're observing it now.

In a real sense, it only happens when the light from it reaches you. Reality propagates at the speed of light.

[pixl97]

Causality is fun. The order in which things happen can be different for different observers. With light on earth humans don't generally experience this because of the small distances involved. But you can design an experiment with sound where 3 observers are placed in a large field and 3 loud noises are made, and each observer will tell you the noises occurred in a different order.

[ben174]

I can't make any sense of this. It has happened over there - so it's happened. How does it make a difference where I am standing. I'm not talking about my reality. I'm talking about reality. Things which have taken place and nothing can change that.

[prettyStandard]

I think about this often. Is this reality's "update loop"[0]?

[0] https://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/game-loop.html

[eternalban]

https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-tunnel-shows-particle...

I'm having difficulty parsing your "in a real sense". Are you refering to Relativity here or something deeper like 'subjective reality'?

[Eupraxias]

My head tilted at the title. I suppose "Mysterious object WAS dragged into the black hole a super long time ago..." doesn't have as much sizzle.

[vasco]

Everything you see "has happened already"!