The light from the sun takes 8 mins to reach us on earth, but if it blew up would it be quicker than 8 mins for us to see or would we see quicker than 8 mins?

Question

Google says it would take 170,000 million years and 8.5 minutes

In: Earth Science

Answer 1

We would see it 8 minutes after it exploded. 170,000 million years is much longer than the universe has existed, so that has nothing to do with the time it takes for sunlight to reach the Earth.