{"id":210631,"date":"2025-04-05T10:08:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-galaxy-died-just-700-million-years-after-the-big-bang-and-science-cant-explain-why"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T15:08:43","slug":"a-galaxy-died-just-700-million-years-after-the-big-bang-and-science-cant-explain-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-galaxy-died-just-700-million-years-after-the-big-bang-and-science-cant-explain-why","title":{"rendered":"A Galaxy Died Just 700 Million Years After the Big Bang \u2014 And Science Can\u2019t Explain Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-galaxy-died-just-700-million-years-after-the-big-bang-and-science-cant-explain-why.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen \u2013 one that had already stopped forming stars just 700 million years after the Big Bang. This challenges existing models of galaxy evolution, which can\u2019t explain how such massive, red and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the most distant quiescent galaxy ever seen \u2013 one that had already stopped forming stars just 700 million years after the Big Bang. This challenges existing models of galaxy evolution, which can\u2019t explain how such massive, red and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,385,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-evolution","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210631","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=210631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}