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?

Question

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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Answer 1

Too old for the galaxy models, not too old for the universe. We know that they weren’t there at x time or earlier at all. The question was how long after x it took to form these structures