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].)
Another contender for the title of smallest thing in the universe is the singularity at the center of a black hole. Black holes are formed when matter is condensed in a small enough space that gravity takes over, causing the matter to pull inward and inward, ultimately condensing into a single point of infinite density.