(July 16, 2023 at 1:23 am)Bucky Ball Wrote:(July 15, 2023 at 11:59 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: How old is our universe? New study says Big Bang might have happened 27 billion years ago
For years, astronomers and physicists have primarily calculated the age of the cosmos by measuring the time elapsed since the Big Bang and studying the oldest stars.
But the study published July 7 in the journal "Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society" seems to confirm that previous estimates were widely off. What's referred to in the new study as the "impossible early galaxy problem" has long baffled scientists who struggle to reconcile why some galaxies thought to have come into existence long after the Big Bang appear to in fact be much older that the universe's estimated age.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...411343007/
I never once heard this "long baffled" anyone.
They all started talking about it when the James Webb came up with first 4, then a couple more.
Yeah, the popular press is impressively bad at science reporting. How many times have you read the headline, 'Astronomers Discover (Another!) Earthlike Planet' and it turns out to be a planet roughly the size and density of Earth. You dig a little deeper and find out that it also has a surface temperature of 3000F, is covered in an ocean of molten iron, and rains Dissolve-O-Gel.
Boru
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