"The Universe Is The Same Everywhere" James Webb Telescope Saw an Early Galaxy Much Large Than our..

but these galaxies are really massive they're about five times more massive than the Milky Way is today remember the Milky Way is being forming for 12 billion years yeah so that points to something really crazy happening in the early Universe in terms of early star formation early Galaxy formation and so if that's the case is that a major rewrite yes you think so yes but we'll see I could we be wrong astronomers have just faced a serious problem in the field of astronomy an early Galaxy recently discovered by the James web telescope has caused a great debate among astronomers at the moment the Lambda CDM model also called the standard model of cosmology has long been our go-to explanation for understanding how the early Universe formed and changed over time however it's recently hit a snag it can't quite account for the discovery of an ancient G Galaxy that seems way bigger and more developed than galaxies we see today scientists are saying that web has found a strange Galaxy which was formed about 13 billion years ago you might wonder what the big surprise is since galaxies may have existed only 200 to 250 million years after the big bang well you are right that it is not a big surprising if we found galaxies only a few billion years after the big bang but this new Galaxy discovered by the web telescope is not what our theories had predicted and scientists claim that if we found more such galaxies in the early Universe it could pose a serious problem to our understanding of the universe Carl glazebrook a distinguished professor at Sween bur University of Technology who used the web telescope for spectroscopic observations of this massive strange Galaxy recently said that web has been finding increasing evidence for massive galaxies forming early in time this result sets a new record for this phenomenon although it is very striking it is only one object but we hope to find more and if we do this will really upset our ideas of Galaxy formation well some scientists are also claiming that the existence of this galaxy is showing us a universe that has no beginning and that it repeats itself not only across space but also so backwards in time so let's delve deeper into this amazing Discovery and understand why the existence of such galaxies is a big problem for astronomy our standard cosmological model which is based entirely on observations and our physics theories predicts that there should be a sequence in the evolution of early galaxies according to this model as we look deeper into the early universe the abundance of galaxies should decrease and there should be less organized and smaller young galaxies previously data from the Hubble Space Telescope for Galaxies with red shifts up to eight match that expectation but wait the James web telescope has recently made some controversial discoveries sparking debate among astronomers as we know our models predicted that the deeper we looked into the early Universe the younger and smaller galaxies we would see but when the web telescope recently peered deeper into the early Universe it found a Galaxy that posed a big problem for all our standard models look at this red Galaxy and compare its size to nearby galaxies doesn't this look strange a paper published today in nature details findings using new data from the James web Space Telescope according to this paper this red object is actually an extremely massive quiescent Galaxy which was formed as early as 1 to two billion years after the big bang which challenges previous theoretical models a quiescent galaxy is one that has low levels of star formation activity in simpler terms it's like a quiet or dormant Galaxy where not many new stars are being born these Galaxies have already formed most of their Stars long ago and are not actively creating new ones as a result they tend to have older stars and appear less bright and active compared to galaxies with high levels of star formation quiescent galaxies are often found in regions of the universe where star formation has slowed down or stopped altogether this image of the James web telescope shows the red quiescent Galaxy named West 7329 but just by looking at pictures it's hard to tell it apart from other stuff in space spectral analysis of its light with James web Space Telescope revealed its anomalous nature scientists found that it formed around 13 billion years ago way back when the universe was just getting started what's even more surprising is that it contains nearly 4X more mass and stars than our Milky Way does today defying conventional Notions of Galactic Evolution earlier Hubble Telescope observations were showing an order in the formation of galaxies but suddenly after the discovery of this red massive Galaxy by the James web telescope it looks disordered scientists are now saying that if we find more such massive galaxies in the early Universe our basic understanding of the universe will be shattered because if we found more such galaxies than the early universe would not look very different from today's universe and this would indicate that our universe had no beginning and had always existed well scientists are now proposing several explanations to solve these massive early Galaxy problem even Nobel laurate Dr John C Mather senior project scientist for the web telescope was stunned by this recent discovery so we were surprised a lot of astronomers are very surprised that the galaxies seem to have grown hotter and faster and bigger than we ever imagined they would and we don't know why so that's the big observational surprise you can say how come were we wrong well I can't tell you yet uh but we know U from pictures that we made with a Hubble Space Telescope uh we extrapolate to what we think would happen farther back in time than Hubble could see and something's wrong about that we don't know so one possibility is that uh galaxies are dusty dust grains absorb Starlight and turn it into infrared so the web telescope can pick up the infrared that we might never have noticed before so that's a possible explanation for the puzzle that we've been looking at but at any rate right now we just have a puzzle which is not understood astronomers are saying that they have been chasing this particular Galaxy for seven years and spent hours observing it with the two largest telescopes on Earth to figure out how old it was but it was too red and too faint and we couldn't measure it in the end we had to go off Earth and use the James web telescope to confirm its nature and what web discovered about the nature of this galaxy has shattered our fundamental understanding of the universe and its beginning well web has observed many massive early galaxies before but this red quiescent Galaxy is a big surprise if we find more such galaxies just a few million years after the big bang we will have to reconsider the age of the universe and how it began right now these discoveries are indicating that the Universe could be much older than previously thought or may have had no beginning that it has simply always existed however further research is required to determine whether this idea of an eternal Universe aligns with our current scientific theories and effectively explains the Complex events surrounding the Big Bang that's all for today hope you guys like this video if you guys have finished this video don't forget to comment what you think about these discoveries thank [Music] you