Reinventing cosmology: uOttawa research puts age of universe at 26.7 — not 13.7 — billion years (IMAGE)

University of Ottawa

Reinventing cosmology: uOttawa research puts age of universe at 26.7 — not 13.7 — billion years

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“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”. Rajendra Gupta — Adjunct professor of physics in the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa

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