flaws in the ‘big bang’ theory?

flaws in the ‘big bang’ theory?

But the official “age of the universe” has changed

with new discoveries. In the late 1950s and early

1960s astronomers identified objects called quasars,

which have a redshift greater than anything

previously observed in the heavens.

Applying the standard interpretation, astronomers

concluded that these objects must lie at the farthest

reaches of the universe, and the universe must be

bigger than previously thought.

Quasars also posed another dilemma. Based on

redshift, astronomers concluded that while

quasars appear dim and red in our sky, they are

actually very bright, but just very far away.

Based on redshift and at the distances claimed,

it would take hundreds of galaxies to produce

this brightness as seen from Earth.

Two Chandra observations of

the giant elliptical galaxy M87

were combined to make this

long-exposure image.