{"id":173778,"date":"2023-10-08T12:33:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T17:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-untangle-mystery-about-the-universes-earliest-galaxies"},"modified":"2023-10-08T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T17:33:15","slug":"scientists-untangle-mystery-about-the-universes-earliest-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-untangle-mystery-about-the-universes-earliest-galaxies","title":{"rendered":"Scientists untangle mystery about the universe\u2019s earliest galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) \u2014 Since beginning operations last year, the James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> has provided an astonishing glimpse of the early history of our universe, spotting a collection of galaxies<\/a> dating to the enigmatic epoch called cosmic dawn.<\/p>\n

But the existence of what appear to be massive and mature<\/a> galaxies during the universe\u2019s infancy defied expectations \u2014 too big and too soon. That left scientists scrambling for an explanation while questioning the basic tenets of cosmology, the science of the origin and development of the universe. A new study may resolve the mystery without ripping up the textbooks.<\/p>\n

The researchers used sophisticated computer simulations to model how the earliest galaxies evolved. These indicated that star formation unfolded differently in these galaxies in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang event 13.8 billion years ago that initiated the universe than it does in large galaxies like our Milky Way populating the cosmos today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) \u2014 Since beginning operations last year, the James Webb Space Telescope has provided an astonishing glimpse of the early history of our universe, spotting a collection of galaxies dating to the enigmatic epoch called cosmic dawn. But the existence of what appear to be massive and mature galaxies during the universe\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}