well that's the problem the James Webb Space Telescope is upsetting the Apple card renowned
American theoretical physicist Michio Kaku just shared a stunning discovery made by the
James Webb Space Telescope change everything we know about the cosmos and its existence
NASA's 10 billion dollars telescope which was launched in December 2021
has just spotted six gargantuan galaxies each roughly the size of our own Milky Way
yes a group of galaxies from the dawn of the universe that are so massive they shouldn't exist
these were first spotted as a series of fuzzy dots that appeared unusually bright and unusually red
the six giant galaxies which contain almost as many stars as The Milky Way despite forming
only 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang have been dubbed Universe Breakers by the team
of astronomers that spotted them that's because if they are real the discovery calls our entire
understanding of Galaxy formation into question explaining the existence of such massive galaxies
this close to the dawn of time would require scientists to revisit the basic rules of cosmology
and the understanding of how the first galaxies were seeded from small clouds of stars and dust
it is not expected that the early universe will be able to organize itself that quickly
these galaxies theoretically should not have had time to form while scientists don't know
exactly when the first clumps of Stars began to merge into the beginnings of the galaxies we see
today cosmologists have previously estimated that the process began slowly taking shape within the
first few hundred million years after the big bang now the discovery of such massive galaxies
so soon after the big bang suggests that the Dark Ages may not have been so dark after
all and that the universe may have been Awash with star formation far earlier than we thought
currently accepted theories have stated that one to two billion years into the universe
life these early proto-galaxies reached adolescence forming into dwarf galaxies
that began devouring each other to grow into ones like our own Milky Way galaxy
because light travels at a fixed speed through the vacuum of space the deeper WE peer into
the universe the more remote light we are able to intercept and the further back in time we can see
by using the James Webb Space Telescope to peer roughly 13.5 billion years into the
past the astronomers found that enormous galaxies had already burst into life very
quickly after the big bang when the universe was just three percent of its current age
these galaxies appeared to be roughly 13.5 billion years old placing them about 500
million to 700 million years after the big bang so according to our current cosmological models
these galaxies should not have had time to form this forces us to rethink everything we know
the galaxies are so massive that they are in tension with 99 of the models for cosmology
this means that either the models will need to be altered or scientific understanding of Galaxy
formation requires a fundamental rethink either way it is a shocking Discovery by Webb once again
the Milky Way forms about one to two new stars every year these galaxies would
have to be forming hundreds of new stars a year for the entire history of the universe
moreover those galaxies appear to hold up to 10 billion times the mass of our sun and
stars one of them might contain the mass of 100 billion Suns if even one of these
galaxies is real it will push against the limits of our understanding of cosmology
right now all evidence points to these celestial objects being galaxies but the astronomers
haven't ruled out that some of them might be enormous quasars or supermassive black holes
previous Imaging of the early Universe by the Hubble Space Telescope didn't
detect the giant galaxies but the jwst is about 100 times more powerful than Hubble
the space Observatory was designed to read the earliest chapters of the universe's history
in its faintest glimmers of light and has been delivering on its promise ever since its launch
this is not the first time Webb has forced us to rethink our understanding of the cosmos
only last year it made a groundbreaking discovery about the Big Bang Theory
Rowan Naidu was sitting at home when he found a Galaxy that nearly broke cosmology
as his algorithm dug through early images from the James Webb Space Telescope he shot two attention
it had sifted out an object that on closer inspection was inexplicably massive and dated
back to just 300 million years after the big bang older than any Galaxy ever seen before
at that moment Rowan knew that it might be the most distant Starlight we had ever seen days later
he published a paper on the candidate Galaxy which was named glassy 13 and the internet exploded
the extraordinary discovery of this galaxy just weeks into Webb's full operations was beyond
astronomers wildest dreams the cosmic Dawn now started to look like a bright Cosmic afternoon
in the weeks and months following Webb's findings of surprisingly early galaxies blindsided
theorists and observers have been scrambling to explain them were these galaxies the first hints
that the universe is stranger and more complex than even our boldest theories had supposed
at stake is nothing less than our very understanding of how the orderly Universe
we know emerged from primordial chaos Hubble's record for the most distant known Galaxy had been
gnz11 spotted in 2015 at a redshift of 11 thanks to a 2009 upgrade to the telescope that enhanced
its modest infrared capabilities a redshift of 11 corresponds to a cosmic age of about 400 million
years after the big bang a point at the brink of when Galaxy formation was thought to begin
Webb's early Revelations could be poised to rewrite the opening chapters of cosmic history
which concern not only distant epochs and far away galaxies but also our own existence here in the
familiar Milky Way you build these machines not to confirm the Paradigm but to break it said web
scientist Markham kogrien at the European Space Agency you just don't know how it will break
as light from a very distant Galaxy Travels across the cosmic Abyss it is
stretched by the expansion of the universe a broadening of wavelengths known as redshift
the higher the redshift value the more stretching the light has experienced and
thus the more distant its source Galaxy will be redshifts for early galaxies are so high that
their emitted visible light has stretched into infrared by the time it arrives at our telescopes
but with glassy 13 at a redshift of 13 it is placed some 300 years after the big bang could
galaxies form so early in the universe although more study is needed to be done on the emerging
primordial candidates scientists hypothesized that smaller galaxies could have formed early in
the universe and that might explain the likes of glassy 13. little did they know that Webb was just
beginning to unearth the universe in the following days dozens of Galaxy candidates from Sears and
glass sprung into view with estimated redshifts as high as 20 just 180 million years after the big
bang some with dislike structures that were not expected to manifest so early in Cosmic history
and now a discovery has been made unlike any other and with it the cracks in cosmology have
started to appear while scanning a region of the cosmos near the Big Dipper a group
of astronomers identified six faint objects as they appeared well over 13 billion years ago
they suspect the objects are ancient galaxies scientists expect such early collections of stars
and swirling matter to be relatively small after all such galaxies hadn't had much time to form or
grow but these galaxies are giants it's bananas because the objects which are red and bright in
the web observations might host billions of stars similar to our Milky Way galaxy these galaxies
formed some 500 to 700 million years after the universe was created during the big bang and
at such a time there simply shouldn't have been enough matter around to create fantastic bursts
of stars and solar system the extremely distant galaxies are the fuzzy red objects as shown here
they are red because the universe is expanding and the light traveling through it becomes
stretched out ultimately shifting to longer redder wavelengths importantly the research about these
galaxies is just the beginning there is potential for example that some of these bright red masses
are a different kind of primordial object like a quasar intensely hot energetic matter spinning
around a black hole and emitting tremendous amounts of light into space however we aren't
sure just how we aren't sure about the many Mysteries of the universe but one thing is for
certain the birth of the universe is now under intense scrutiny and whatever comes out of web
data I hope we use them to form a better origin story of the universe because what is science
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