🚨WARNING: 'Albert Einstein is right again'

Time dilation, brought about by the relativistic expansion of space, has resulted in the observed slowdown of 'clocks' in the early universe. Time appeared to move 5 times slower in the 1 billion years after the Big Bang, quasar 'clocks' reveal.

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Time has been observed to pass more slowly in quasars in the early universe.

The observed time dilation comes as a consequence of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity combined with the expansion of space. "At its core, this is another 'Einstein is right again' story," Geraint Lewis, a cosmologist at the University of Sydney, told Space. with. Read more about it: (SOURCE): https://space.com/quasar-clocks-universe-time-dilation

Scientists observed for the first time that in the early Universe, time passed "five times slower". They analyzed data from quasar objects powered by "supermassive" black holes at the centers of the first galaxies, and used them to measure time shortly after the beginning of the Universe. "Looking back to a time when the Universe was just over a billion years old, we see that time seems to flow five times slower [just after the Big Bang]," says Lewis, lead author of the study published in the journal scientific Nature Astronomy. "If you were there, in this early universe, a second would seem like a second — but from our position, over 12 billion years in the future, that initial time seems to drag." "Thanks to Einstein, we know that time and space are intertwined, and since the beginning of time in the Big Bang singularity, the Universe has been expanding," he says. "This expansion of space means that our observations of the early Universe should appear much slower than how time flows today."

"In this paper, we established that this goes back to about a billion years after the Big Bang."