Cosmologists have found galaxies that are said to be too old to exist. Why isn’t this simply evidence that the universe is older than we think?

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Cosmologists have found galaxies that are said to be too old to exist. Why isn’t this simply evidence that the universe is older than we think?

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It’s because the way it’s phrased is as a clickbait title. It should just be “we discovered some galaxies that are older than the current model predicts is possible, we’ll need to determine where the error is in our current model or if the discovery is somehow flawed. Research is continuing and we’ll understand the universes history slightly better now.” but that gets less attention.