Have Dark Stars Been Discovered to Is the Universe Twice as Old as We Thought?

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‘Mindblowing’: how James Webb telescope’s snapshots of the infant universe transformed astronomy, reports The Guardian. "Among the objects caught in the telescope’s giant mirror is one that turns out to be the oldest known galaxy in the universe. The prosaically named JADES-GS-z13-0 appears as it did a mere 320m years after the big bang, long before the creation of our own planet. It also turns out to be tiny compared with our own galaxy, yet it was clearly creating new stars at a rate comparable to the Milky Way."

Is the Universe Twice as Old as We Thought?, explores Mike McRae for Science Alert. "A retired cosmological theory should be given a second chance at explaining anomalies in our Universe, according to theoretical physicist Rajendra Gupta from the University of Ottawa in Canada. By marrying the existing expanding Universe theory with a fringe explanation called the tired light hypothesis, Gupta has found the Big Bang could have taken place an astonishing 26.7 billion years ago. That's twice as old as current models predict."

Researcher Says the Expansion of the Universe Is Just a Mirage. He Might Be Right.--As we continue the search for evidence of dark energy, one scientist proposes a radical new idea about what's going on in the cosmos, reports Popular Mechanics.

James Webb Space Telescope finds possible evidence of dark stars, reports Bob Yirka for Phys.org--"The dark star candidates they examined, JADES-GS-z11, z12 and z13-0, conformed strongly to the characteristics they described for dark stars."

The Ghosts of Dead Stars Form a Mysterious Alignment, But Why? asks Michelle Starr for Science Alert. "This finding," says astrophysicist Albert Zijlstra of The University of Manchester, "pushes us closer to understanding the cause for this mysterious alignment."

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