{"id":185813,"date":"2024-03-23T04:22:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T09:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/speck-of-light-glimpsed-by-hubble-is-truly-an-enormous-old-galaxy-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals"},"modified":"2024-03-23T04:22:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T09:22:48","slug":"speck-of-light-glimpsed-by-hubble-is-truly-an-enormous-old-galaxy-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/speck-of-light-glimpsed-by-hubble-is-truly-an-enormous-old-galaxy-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Speck of light glimpsed by Hubble is truly an enormous old galaxy, James Webb Space Telescope reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/speck-of-light-glimpsed-by-hubble-is-truly-an-enormous-old-galaxy-james-webb-space-telescope-reveals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When it comes to the cosmic conundrum of how early galaxies grew to become so massive so quickly Gz9p3 could be a real puzzle. Not only is it more massive than expected, but it is around 10 times more massive than other galaxies the JWST has seen in similar eras of the universe\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/james-webb-space-telescope-hubble-tension-universe-expansion-study\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/james-webb-space-telescope-hubble-tension-universe-expansion-study\">James Webb Space Telescope complicates expanding universe paradox by checking Hubble\u2019s work<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a couple of years ago, Gz9p3 appeared as a single point of light through the Hubble Space Telescope,\u201d Kit Boyett, team member and a scientist at the University of Melbourne, wrote for the institute\u2019s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pursuit.unimelb.edu.au\/articles\/once-just-a-speck-of-light-now-revealed-as-the-biggest-known-galaxy-in-the-early-universe\" data-url=\"https:\/\/pursuit.unimelb.edu.au\/articles\/once-just-a-speck-of-light-now-revealed-as-the-biggest-known-galaxy-in-the-early-universe\">Pursuit publication<\/a>. \u201cBut by using the JWST we could observe this object as it was 510 million years after the Big Bang, around 13 billion years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the cosmic conundrum of how early galaxies grew to become so massive so quickly Gz9p3 could be a real puzzle. Not only is it more massive than expected, but it is around 10 times more massive than other galaxies the JWST has seen in similar eras of the universe\u2019s history. Related: [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185813","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}