German researchers say the Universe is twice as old as we thought. Hans
Joachim Blome and a team at the University of Bonn say galaxies do not have
enough time to form in the 15 billion years most cosmologists favour as
the age of the Universe. The big star systems need 30 billion years to grow
up, they say.
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