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> Its a lot closer to us than a lot of blazars typically are

And the article says:

> The source is also the farthest TDE ever detected, at some 8.5 billion lights years away—more than halfway across the universe.

So this is the farthest TDE, but most Blazars are even further away than "halfway across the universe"?

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88% of the volume of the universe is more than halfway across the universe. Assuming a spherical universe with us at the center.

Observable Universe.

There's likely considerably more unobservable Universe.

Blazars are some of the brightest objects in the sky, and some of the furthest from us (think the furthest object I studied was at a redshift of 6 or so). They can also be difficult to pinpoint in terms of distance due to their flat spectra.

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