We were born from an explosion. The Big Bang, a term used to describe the beginning of the universe according to the most widely accepted scientific theory on the origin of the cosmos.
According to this theory, the universe began as an extremely hot and dense singularity approximately 13.8 billion years ago. At that time, all the matter and energy in the universe were concentrated in an infinitesimal point, without space or time as we know it today.
But a recent theory throws this knowledge to the ground and suggests that, in reality, this event occurred in a deeper universe, perhaps twice as far away as we already knew. Scientists say that the Big Bang would have occurred 26.7 billion years ago.
“Our newly designed model stretches the galaxy formation time by several billion years, making the universe 26.7 billion years old, and not 13.7 as previously estimated,” said study author Professor Rajendra Gupta, according to a review. Daily Mail.
If this new theory is confirmed, recent findings made by the James Webb Space Telescope, which detected galaxies and stars very old in the vicinity of this area of the early universe, would make sense.
“By allowing this theory to coexist with the expanding universe, it is possible to reinterpret redshift as a hybrid phenomenon, rather than solely due to expansion,” adds Professor Gupta.
“This modification in the cosmological model helps to solve the puzzle of the small sizes of galaxies observed in the early universe, which allows for more precise observations,” concludes the scientific team.