Uh Oh! “First” Stars Are 13.62 Billion Years Old (z = 20)?
1 min readMay 16, 2018
That’s over 300 million years earlier than predicted.
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018Natur.555...67B
Related full paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.05966.pdf
If this holds up it may require further “adjustments” to our “precision cosmology”, aka the Lambda CDM model.
Stay tuned!