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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by adolph on Monday March 31, 2025 @10:52AM (#43535718)
> equidistant from the edge of the observable universe in all directions

That seems like an example of "streetlight effect." The streetlight effect, or the drunkard's search principle, is a type of observational bias that occurs when people only search for something where it is easiest to look.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

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Re:James Webb Space Telescope Reveals That Most Galaxies Rot... by jordanb on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:51PM (#43537105)
It's not. Rather it's that every observer in the universe is at the center of their own light cone.

The fact that we can not observe anything outside our light cone is well understood.

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