{"id":96213,"date":"2019-09-14T01:02:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T08:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/universe-might-be-2-billion-years-younger-shocking-study-says"},"modified":"2019-09-14T01:02:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T08:02:25","slug":"universe-might-be-2-billion-years-younger-shocking-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/universe-might-be-2-billion-years-younger-shocking-study-says","title":{"rendered":"Universe might be 2 billion years younger, shocking study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/universe-might-be-2-billion-years-younger-shocking-study-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The universe is assumed to be roughly 13.7 billion years old, but a stunning new study says it could be significantly younger than that \u2014 by a couple of billion years.<\/p>\n<p>According to the study, researchers used new calculations that took different approaches to figure out just how old the universe really is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have large uncertainty for how the stars are moving in the galaxy,\u201d the study\u2019s lead author, Inh Jee, of the Max Planck Institute, told the Associated Press. The research has been published in <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/365\/6458\/1134\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The universe is assumed to be roughly 13.7 billion years old, but a stunning new study says it could be significantly younger than that \u2014 by a couple of billion years. According to the study, researchers used new calculations that took different approaches to figure out just how old the universe really is. \u201cWe have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96213","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}