Astronomers Uncover , Massive Galaxies , Near the Dawn of the Cosmos.
'The Independent' reports that astronomers have observed
what they believe to be massive galaxies dating back
to within 600 million years of the Big Bang. .
According to a team out of Swinburne University of
Technology, the observation suggests the early universe
had a stellar fast-track that created these "monsters.".
While older galaxies have been observed before,
what surprised scientists about these
mega-galaxies was their size and maturity.
While most galaxies in this era are
still small and only gradually growing
larger over time, there are a few
monsters that fast-track to maturity. , Ivo Labbe, lead researcher at Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology,
via 'The Independent'.
Why this is the case or how
this would work is unknown, Ivo Labbe, lead researcher at Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology,
via 'The Independent'.
'The Independent' reports that these galaxy observations
came from the first data set collected by NASA and
the European Space Agency's $10 billion Webb telescope. .
The revelation that massive galaxy
formation began extremely early
in the history of the universe upends
what many of us had thought
was settled science, Joel Leja, Pennsylvania State University,
via 'The Independent'.
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, Joel Leja, Pennsylvania State University,
via 'The Independent'.
According to Pennsylvania State University’s
Joel Leja, it's possible that a few of the massive objects
might actually be supermassive black holes.
All six of the objects observed, whether galaxies or black
holes, look to weigh billions of times more than our sun,
with one of them weighing 100 billion times more.