10-08-2018 00:05 via thestranger.com

Why the Concept of God Might Be a Useful Error

by Charles MudedeThis supermassive black hole is eating a star. NASA/JPL-Caltech
A galaxy that's 12 billion light-years away was identified by a team of astronomers in the Netherlands. They used a Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India to spot the distant object. The galaxy is located at a time when the universe has only existed for a billion years—that is, seven percent of its current age, 13.5 billion. This is the most distant radio galaxy on record. Radio galaxies are very act
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