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Inflation was way before the time seen in this image.


But it still answers the question asked in the parent comment.


Not really - inflation ended 300,000 years before galaxies began to form. Galaxies formed at a time when the expansion of the Universe was proceeding much more sedately.

The question was (paraphrasing) why does light from something 2 billion LY away take 12 billion years to arrive? Inflation notwithstanding, I would like to know the answer.




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