Quasars Quash Big Bang Assumption by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
According to the most prominent naturalistic theory of origins,
the universe began over 13 billion years ago in a "Big Bang"
that flung matter, energy, and space outward. But quasars near
some of the most distant galaxies have posed a problem for this
view. A new study showed that these objects, some of the
brightest in the universe, cast even more darkness on
astronomers' current understanding of starlight and time.
Quasars, or "quasi-stellar radio sources," are super-bright,
massive, glowing objects that appear to be associated with black
holes near galactic cores. Like many stars and galaxies, they
are millions of light years away from earth. Light from these
distant sources appears shifted toward the red, or low energy,
end of the electromagnetic spectrum. This is interpreted to be
caused by an expanding universe.1 In the early 1990s, eminent
astronomer Halton Arp discovered a thick trail of glowing gas
linking a galaxy named NGC 4319 to a nearby q