Scientists say quasars demonstrate the early universe's "time dilation," when time then passed only about a fifth as quickly as it does today. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-023-02029-2
Detection of the cosmological time dilation of high-redshift quasars - Nature Astronomy

A Bayesian-based analysis of 190 cosmologically distant quasars, photometrically observed over two decades, has revealed the long-expected presence of cosmic time dilation owing to the expansion of space imprinted on their variability.

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@w7voa Not directly to the post but considering the accelerating expansion of the universe.. is there no reason it is not just a colossal diffusion across a gradient... zero space and stuff thrown in explosively it accelerates until diffusion is complete.