New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed (phys.org)

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Our universe could be twice as old as current estimates, according to a new study that challenges the dominant cosmological model and sheds new light on the so-called "impossible early galaxy problem."

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[-] fearout@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s the news article, it wasn’t paywalled for me as well. I was talking about the original paper published here, the one I pasted the abstract from.

The paper itself costs €15. I’ve emailed the author asking for the paper btw, let’s see if he answers.

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