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].)
Astronomers believe the universe was formed by the Big Bang roughly 13.6 billion years ago. Artist's conception of a quasar similar to APM 08279+5255. Credit: NASA/ESA. The water measured in the quasar is in the form of vapor and is the largest mass of water ever found, according to the researchers. The amount of water estimated to be in the quasar is at least 100,000 times the mass of the sun, equivalent to 34 billion times the mass of the Earth.