[HN Gopher] James Webb's 'too massive' galaxies may be even more...
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James Webb's 'too massive' galaxies may be even more massive
Author : ProAm
Score : 68 points
Date : 2023-05-18 17:54 UTC (5 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (phys.org)
| simonh wrote:
| Before we get too excited about the idea these galaxies are too
| big to have formed so early, it looks like there's evidence some
| very large galaxies can form a lot faster than previously
| thought.
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| https://youtu.be/CrGhpqKfRv4
| kloch wrote:
| Apparently there are a lot of amazing papers about to come out
| https://twitter.com/andrasgaspar/status/1658914819100098560?...
| kubeia wrote:
| For the discovery of those 'too massive galaxies' you can look at
| the following paper:
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| A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the
| Big Bang
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| https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05786-2
| croes wrote:
| >This image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 and its surroundings was
| the first image released from the James Webb Space Telescope in
| July 2023.
|
| Typo in the picture text
| rossdavidh wrote:
| Technically, it could be that's how it will turn out, if, say,
| they decide to re-release this image on July 1.
| lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote:
| If that's true, it should read "will be" instead of "was".
| I'm tempted to think there's some relativity joke I'm not
| getting given the topic, but it's probably just a mistake.
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