The James Webb Space Telescope has found galaxies that appear to have formed within 280 million years of the Big Bang, some containing heavy elements that shouldn't have had time to form — and at least one peer-reviewed paper has now proposed that the universe might actually be 26.7 billion years old, almost twice the standard estimate

The James Webb Space Telescope wasn’t supposed to find any of this. When it launched in late 2021, astronomers expected it would peer further back in time than any instrument in human history. They hoped to see the first faint galaxies — the small, dim, chemically simple ones that should have existed in the universe’s […]

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