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How does a balloon expanding at relativistic speed look like?

Suppose that we could observe from outside a system expanding radially at relativistic speed ($\frac{dr}{dt}$ about $c$, constant and/or accelerated). It can be an ideal balloon, or a spherical distribution of particles.

What would it look like? A shrinking sphere? Or a sphere expanding slower than expected? Nothing of the above?

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