{"id":166983,"date":"2023-07-06T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/time-appeared-to-move-5-times-more-slowly-in-1st-billion-years-after-big-bang-quasar-clocks-reveal"},"modified":"2023-07-06T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T15:22:27","slug":"time-appeared-to-move-5-times-more-slowly-in-1st-billion-years-after-big-bang-quasar-clocks-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/time-appeared-to-move-5-times-more-slowly-in-1st-billion-years-after-big-bang-quasar-clocks-reveal","title":{"rendered":"Time appeared to move 5 times more slowly in 1st billion years after Big Bang, quasar \u2018clocks\u2019 reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/time-appeared-to-move-5-times-more-slowly-in-1st-billion-years-after-big-bang-quasar-clocks-reveal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lewis and Brendon Brewer of the University of Auckland are co-authors on a new paper describing the long-sought after confirmation of time dilation effects in the variability of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17262-quasar-definition.html\">quasars<\/a>. A quasar is powered by an accreting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/supermassive-black-hole\">supermassive black hole<\/a> at the heart of an extremely active galaxy. Because the accretion disk around the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/15421-black-holes-facts-formation-discovery-sdcmp.html\">black hole<\/a> is relatively small, fluctuations in the light emitted by the quasar can take place in just days. This makes them easier to track.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the time since the light, and its fluctuations, was emitted from the 12 billion-year-old quasars, the universe has expanded greatly. This means that we are seeing the quasars as they existed over 12 billion years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expected quasars to also exhibit this behavior, but previous searches had failed to find it,\u201d said Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis and Brendon Brewer of the University of Auckland are co-authors on a new paper describing the long-sought after confirmation of time dilation effects in the variability of quasars. A quasar is powered by an accreting supermassive black hole at the heart of an extremely active galaxy. Because the accretion disk around the black hole [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}