[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.
       | 
       | 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
       | 
       | 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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