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Runaway expansion
A FLURRY of puzzlement greeted reports last month about the observation of the oldest galaxy spotted so far. The snappily titled z8_GND_5296 formed 700 million years after the origin of the universe 13.8 billion years ago and is . Eh? Perry Bebbington asked Feedback: how can the light we see from this galaxy be “more than twice the age of the Universe”?
We wondered whether we ought to sharpen our pencil and work…
