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.”

  • I’m gonna need more than a single study making such a claim to consider it accurate. There’s plenty of one-off studies that make major claims and then nothing ever came about from it when closer scrutiny was applied by the scientific community.

    •  djc0   ( @djc0@kbin.social ) 
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      Yes this is the correct response. The standard model is the standard model because it’s stood the test of decades of challenges. One paper does not topple this.

      EDIT: also note, the early galaxy formation challenges are interesting but don’t require a revision of the cosmological model. The data is new and many of these results will be revised into the “less spectacular” bin (this is already happening).