Big Bang study shows universe 80m years older than previously thought

New results from a look into the split second after the Big Bang indicate the universe is 80m years older than previously thought.

But the core concepts of the cosmos — how it began, what it’s made of and where it’s going — seem to be on the right track.

The findings released in Paris bolster a key theory called inflation, which says the universe burst from sub-atomic size to its now-observable expanse in a fraction of a second.