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Q&A: Cosmology
Q:
I need to find out what objects are in space further than
131,700,000,000 light years.
A:
There are undoubtedly many objects at a distance greater than
131 billion light years, but we can't know about them, if the
Big Bang theory is correct and the observable universe
originated only about 13 billion years ago. Light has not had
enough time to reach us from such distant objects