Quick, Marge, call the Cosmic Enquirer! Astronomers have discovered a monster blob lurking at the edge of the universe. The blob may be the earliest known galaxy to be caught in the act of its first feeding frenzy.
GROWING GALAXY This composite, false-color image is of a giant blob of glowing gas, known as a the Lyman-alpha blob, hails from a time when the universe was only 800 million years old, or 6 percent of its current age.
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