Guinness World Records: scientific illiteracy?

The 2005 edition ("Special 50th Anniversary Edition) of Guinness World
Records, contrasting "fifty years of change", gives information on the
category "Remotest known body" (in space) for 2005 and 1955 on page 8.
The entry for 1955 states in part: "There is reason to believe that
even remoter nebulae exist but, since it is possible that they are
receding faster than the speed of light (670,455,000 mph /
1,078,992,730 km/h), they would be beyond man's 'observable horizon'."

What theory is this based upon, if any, and how is the apparent
inconsistency (with relativity's requirement that massive objects
travel below the speed of light as measured by all observers)
explained?

Mark Adkins
msadkins04@xxxxxxxxx

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