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mfb- t1_jd1u6nk wrote

Almost everything moves slowly compared to the speed of light. Typical velocities in galaxies are under 0.1% the speed of light, so things only move something like 100 light years or less over 100,000 years. That's not going to make a big difference if you look at something as large as a galaxy.

For relativistic jets from black holes it's an important effect and we need to take it into account.

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