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New view of nature’s oldest light adds fresh twist to debate over universe’s age – Mirage News
From a mountain high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation’s Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) have taken a fresh…
From a mountain high in Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers with the National Science Foundation’s Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) have taken a fresh look at the oldest light in the universe. Their new observations plus a bit of cosmic geometry suggest that the universe is 13.77 billion years old, give or take 40 million years.
The newly calculated estimate precisely matches the one provided by the “standard model” of the universe and measurements of the same light made by the Planck satellit…
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