Astronomers Find The Oldest, Most Distant Galaxy to Date
MATT WILLIAMS, UNIVERSE TODAY
6 JANUARY 2021
Since time immemorial, philosophers and scholars have contemplated the beginning of time and even tried to determine when all things began. It's only been in the age of modern astronomy that we've come close to answering that question with a fair degree of certainty.
According to the most widely-accepted cosmological models, the Universe began with the Bang Bang roughly 13.8 billion years ago.
Even so, astronomers are still uncertain about what the early Universe looked like since this period coincided with the cosmic "Dark Ages". Therefore, astronomers keep pushing the limits of their instruments to see when the earliest galaxies formed.