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Could this be the oldest galaxy in the universe? – ZME Science
If galaxies were human, GN-z11 would want you to get off its lawn.
Back in the day of GN-z11, galaxies were made of stronger stuff and it just doesn’t understand young whipper-snappers like the Milky Way. Such is the life of older galaxies. In this case, the oldest that we know of. So distant, in fact, it defines the very boundary of the observable universe itself.
The oldest known galaxy is a whopping 13.4 billion light years from Earth (Photo: Pixabay)
Professor Nobunari Kashikawa from the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo sought the most distant…
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