The Open Universe
The Open Universe
Sownak Bose & Ana Bonaca
Episode 11: The JWST Revolution, Part 3: Is the Universe Broken?
30 minutes Posted Sep 25, 2024 at 4:15 pm.
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Our exploration continues into the world of CEERS, one of the major flagship surveys of the early JWST data. Now, astronomers are confronted by yet more first generation galaxies that seem to defy scientific consensus -- a group of objects so luminous that their formation should not have been possible based on standard theories of galaxy formation. So, is the Universe truly broken? Or is it simply playing a cruel trick on our ability to locate how far these galaxies actually are....?