{"id":167497,"date":"2023-07-14T10:24:39","date_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-research-puts-age-of-universe-at-26-7-billion-years-nearly-twice-as-old-as-previously-believed"},"modified":"2023-07-14T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T15:24:39","slug":"new-research-puts-age-of-universe-at-26-7-billion-years-nearly-twice-as-old-as-previously-believed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/new-research-puts-age-of-universe-at-26-7-billion-years-nearly-twice-as-old-as-previously-believed","title":{"rendered":"New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-puts-age-of-universe-at-26-7-billion-years-nearly-twice-as-old-as-previously-believed2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cimpossible early galaxy problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The work is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by a several billion years, making the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a> 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated,\u201d says author Rajendra Gupta, adjunct professor of physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201cimpossible early galaxy problem.\u201d The work is published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. \u201cOur newly-devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}