The king of Sardis accepted them as suppliants, and then refused to surrender them to the Medes. This led to a 5 year war between the Lydians and Medes, which was finally settled by a treaty in which Alyattes daughter Aryenis was given in marriage to Astyages, son of Cyaxares.
Quasar cluster is challenge to our current understanding, astronomer says. Enlarge. A quasar jets energy in an illustration. A newfound quasar cluster is the universe's biggest known object. Illustration courtesy M. Kornmesser, ESO. Talk about a whopperâastronomers have discovered a structure in the universe so large that modern cosmological theory says it should not exist, a new study says. (Also see Giant 'Blob' Is Largest Thing in Universe [2006].)
But when you include their mass, they are among the top competitors for the largest things in the universe. And quasar OJ287 is the largest black hole weâve spotted.< Itâs estimated to be 18 billion times the mass of our sun and is a supermassive black hole located in the center of a galaxy.