Quanta Magazine July 02, 2026 • 15:00

Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe - Quanta Magazine

Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe - Quanta Magazine

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true.

The galaxy on the screen represented an early population, but the most ancient galaxy discovered by JWST so far existed only 280 million years after the Big Bang. The telescopes bewildering discovery… [+5574 chars]

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