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].)
Scientists know that the universe is expanding. Thus, while scientists might see a spot that lay 13.8 billion light-years from Earth at the time of the Big Bang, the universe has continued to expand over its lifetime.Today, that same spot is 46 billion light-years away, making the diameter of the observable universe a sphere around 92 billion light-years.[ VIDEO: Oldest Light in the Universe: How it Traveled to Us ]. Centering a sphere on Earth's location in space might seem to put mankind in the center of the universe.oday, that same spot is 46 billion light-years away, making the diameter of the observable universe a sphere around 92 billion light-years. [ VIDEO: Oldest Light in the Universe: How it Traveled to Us ].