(October 23, 2014 at 3:37 pm)Exian Wrote: I think the earliest quasars are about 12 billion light years away (a billion years after the Big Bang).
I was speaking in general terms, but ya there is a short amount of time between big bang and earliest observed objects. NASA puts them at 13.7 billion and 13.2 billion, respectively.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble...alaxy.html