WOW! And what the scientists are seeing (at 5.7 billion light years from Earth) all happened nearly 600 million years before the Earth was even here!
Like EDINVA, it is impossible to grasp these numbers and distances. What stood out for me in the NatGeo article and put things into better perspective was this.
It's so massive, McDonald said, that our own galaxy groupnot quite a cluster, at about 30 galaxies, including the Milky Wayhas only about 0.1 percent the mass of Phoenix.
And even this is a stretch for the imagination.