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Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns by wozniacki on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @09:21PM (#9110955)
Cosmology from quantum potential ( Ahmed Farag Ali, Saurya Das )

  It was shown recently that replacing classical geodesics 
  with quantal (Bohmian) trajectories gives rise to a
  quantum corrected Raychaudhuri equation (QRE). In this 
  article we derive the second order Friedmann equations
  from the QRE, and show that this also contains a couple
  of quantum correction terms, the first of which can be
  interpreted as cosmological constant (and gives a correct
  estimate of its observed value), while the second as a
  radiation term in the early universe, which gets rid of
  the big-bang singularity and predicts an infinite age of
  our universe. [1]
[1] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.3093v3.pdf
Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns by saiya-jin on Thursday February 26, 2015 @04:59AM (#9111833)
If universe is older than big bang, why don't we see anything older than that? I mean, there isnt such a drop in visibility of galaxy/bright object that is 5 billion vs 10 bilion years old. So, where are all 30 or more billion year old objects? Maybe there wasn't ultimate singularity in the beginning, but universe is definitely not the same no matter how far you look in the past.
Re:Astronomers find an ancient black hole the size of 12B suns by ccozan on Thursday February 26, 2015 @10:11AM (#9112857)