Largest water reservoir discovered

[busenbust]

Largest water reservoir discovered
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Largest-water-reservoir-discovered/Article1-724518.aspx

Astronomers have discovered what they claim is the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. Looking from a distance of 30 billion trillion miles away into a quasar, a team at California Institute of Technology has found a mass of water vapour that's at least 140 trillion times that of all the water in the world's oceans combined, and 100,000 times more massive than the sun.


Quasar is one of the brightest and most violent objects in the cosmos.

Because the quasar is so far away, its light has taken 12 billion years to reach Earth. The observations therefore reveal a time when the universe was just 1.6 billion years old, say the astronomers.

^^wow ! what a discovery.

 

[Rane1071]

The sheer power of quasars' is mind-blowing. Imagine if we could harness the energy of just one.

What gets me is that if the quasar is - e.g. 12 billion light yrs away, we're seeing back in time, so to speak.

It could've been destroyed, faded away or whatever and we won't know until the light gets here in 12 billion yrs. ... Makes ya think.

 

[Atar554]

This thread needs a catchier title. I thought this was going to be land based not space based 0.0

 

[ragincaucasian]

Haliburton is building the pipeline as we speak

 

[D-rock]

What has to be keep in mind is that's the water that's in an entire galaxy they are measuring.

The sheer power of quasars' is mind-blowing. Imagine if we could harness the energy of just one.

What gets me is that if the quasar is - e.g. 12 billion light yrs away, we're seeing back in time, so to speak.

It could've been destroyed, faded away or whatever and we won't know until the light gets here in 12 billion yrs. ... Makes ya think.

Actually if it disappeared right now it would take longer than 12 billion years for the light to get here because due to the expansion of the universe it's farther away than that by now. It was only 12 billion light years away about 12 billion years ago and adjusted some for the red shift of the light.

 

[gloyster]

If only this was land based I might of taken a nice dip.

Oh shagworth!