Euclidean embedding of a part of the Lambda-CDM spacetime geometry, showing the Milky Way (brown), a quasar at redshift z = 6.4 (yellow), light from the quasar reaching the Earth after approximately 12 billion years (red), and the present-era metric distance to the quasar of approximately 28 billion light years (orange). Lines of latitude (purple) are lines of constant cosmological time, spaced by 1 billion years; lines of longitude (cyan) are world lines of objects moving with the Hubble flow, spaced by 1 billion light years in the present era (less in the past and more in the future).



Author: Ben Rudiak-Gould