A mature galaxy has been discovered in an early phase of the Universe apparently too young to contain it. Is this the end of the theorists' favourite cosmology, the Einstein–de Sitter model?
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Kennicutt, R. An old galaxy in a young Universe. Nature 381, 555–556 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/381555a0
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