![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/big-bang-bombshell-as-expert-reveals-shock-theory-that-could-blow-apart-our-understanding-of-the-universe/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/milky-way-galaxy-stars-space-831500597.jpg&description=THE universe is twice as old as we thought, say experts who are blowing apart old theories of the cosmos. Researchers from the University of Ottawa are reinventing cosmology with their new claim that the Big Bang happened 26.7 billion years ago. 3 The new model challenges the dominant theory of the age of the universe, adding 13 billion years to its existence Credit: Getty 3 The James Webb Space telescope is regularly uncovering former secrets of the universe and feeding them back to NASA Credit: PA The breakthrough new model almost doubles the time scientists believed had taken place between the mega-explosion and life today. "Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the universe 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated," said the leading author of the study, Rajendra Gupta. Until now, astronomers and physicists calculated the age of the universe by studying the oldest stars based on the amount of redshift light coming from distant galaxies. In 2021, new techniques and advances in technology produced the estimate that the universe was 13.797 billion years old. However, experts have been puzzled by the existence of stars that appear to be older than the age of the universe. The Methuselah star, for example, is predicted to be between 13.65 to 15.25 billion years old. Now, that leading theory may be old news after the new bombshell study added another 13 billion years to its existence, possibly explaining the old age of some stars. Breakthroughs by the James Webb Space telescope also revealed young galaxies in an advanced state of evolution - which equally baffled scientists. These early galaxies - existing 300 million years after the Big Bang - appear to have a level of maturity associated with billions of years of cosmic evolution. Yet, Gupta suggested these may be explained by the evolution of "coupling constraints" - the idea that the fundamental physical constants that govern interactions){kind=link}
THE universe is twice as old as we thought, say experts who are blowing apart old theories of the cosmos.
Researchers from the University of Ottawa are reinventing cosmology with their new claim that the Big Bang happened 26.7 billion years ago.
The breakthrough new model almost doubles the time scientists believed had taken place between the mega-explosion and life today.
“Our newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the universe 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated,” said the leading author of the study, Rajendra Gupta.
Until now, astronomers and physicists calculated the age of the universe by studying the oldest stars based on the amount of redshift light coming from distant galaxies.