Astronomers assign great distances (billions of light years) to a luminous phenomenon associated with black-holes at the center of galaxies known as a Quasar, because the light from Quasars is extremely red-shifted, which means that the wave-length is very elongated. This is usually explained by means of the Doppler effect, which was discussed previously on this site on the page discussing Einstein’s famous equation, E equals MC squared. The Quasar must be quite distant and moving away from us because the light is very red-shifted.

However an extremely red-shifted Quasar has now been found at the center of a galaxy in our neighborhood. Discovery Poses Cosmic Puzzle: Can A 'Distant' Quasar Lie Within A Nearby Galaxy?

For the purposes of the following discussion to keep matters simple I will be ignoring the Doppler effect, in order to draw attention to another behavior of electromagnetic radiation, which is one of the consequence of the tight binding that exists between energy and three dimensional space.

In the image above we see a nearby galaxy on the right of the image, with a Quasar at the center of the gravitational well which is emitting ‘very blue’ extremely high frequency gamma radiation. As the light moves out of the galaxy, the spatial gradient becomes less contracted and more dilated, and the light becomes more red shifted, as suggested by the model of a triangular gravity well at the bottom of the image. The light then crosses a region of very dilated space as it heads towards our galaxy on the left of the image, and because a tight binding exists between energy and the dilation of space, the gamma ray has now assumed the form of very elongated extremely red-shifted long wave radio frequency as it crosses this expanse of ‘flat, dilated’ space. The wave then enters the increasingly contracted space of our galaxy, and the wave itself begins to contract and become more blue shifted as it adapts to the decreasing dilation of space it encounters. Out solar system is out in the suburbs at the edge of our galaxy, so by the time the gamma ray reaches us, at point E-2, it is still a red-shifted wave, the reason for this being that space is more dilated and less contracted at the edge of a galaxy than at the center. The gamma ray will once again appear as a gamma ray when it is observed at the very center of our galaxy, assuming that the ‘depth’ of our galaxy is equivalent to the depth of the emitting source. If our galaxy is shallower then the gamma ray would still appear slightly red-shifted from its wave-length at the deeper emitting source. The reason for this apparent discrepancy would be that, if such a gamma ray appeared as ‘E-4’ at the center of our galaxy that would be because E-4 = E-5, and because the absolute energy of the gamma ray has not changed just because it flew through space, therefore it must red-shift to adapt to the new space.