Thursday, February 23, 2023

the known mass in stars at this period of our universe is up to 100 times greater than we had previously thought

 Here is some interesting reading:


https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/22/world/webb-telescope-massive-early-galaxies-scn/index.html

For those who think the science is ever settled...

FTA: The galaxies are so massive that they conflict with 99% of models representing early galaxies in the universe, which means scientists need to rethink how galaxies formed and evolved. 

... Leja said. “It turns out we found something so unexpected it actually creates problems for science. It calls the whole picture of early galaxy formation into question.”

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What’s funny is we have all these things we hope to learn from James Webb and this was nowhere near the top of the list. We’ve found something we never thought to ask the universe — and it happened way faster than I thought, but here we are.”