What's the blob?

Ok, so what's up with this?

WASHINGTON - A strange giant space “blob” spotted when the universe was relatively young has got astronomers puzzled.

Using space and ground telescopes, astronomers looked back to when the universe was only 800 million years old and found something that was out of proportion and out of time. It was gaseous, big, and emitted a certain type of radiation, said study lead author Masami Ouchi, an astronomer at the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, Calif.

Scientists don’t even know what to call it. So they just called it a radiation-emitting “blob.”

Cosmological anomalies.

Those who speculate on such things suggest that the lives we live, during the epoch through we live them, are actually chosen by us in that between-corporeal lives state when we reflect on the last life's lessons, etc etc.

Whenever I hear about stuff like this, I always wonder if I've chosen this epoch in this corner of the universe, so I can live through the experience of learning about stuff like this and finding out what exactly it is.

Which is a nice thought, but realistically, I have to imagine it's unlikely that I ever will learn what this is, in this life.