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Nope. If the quasar were 12 billion light-years away when the light was emitted, the light would never have even reached us! In this scenario, the distance between the quasar and Earth that the light needs to traverse would undergo metric expansion that would hugely outpace any progress made by the light's motion (more precisely, its peculiar motion) in the direction of Earth.


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