Massive Early Galaxies Discovery Could Be ‘Universe Breaker”

Massive early galaxies emerged from a review of the James Webb Space Telescope’s first dataset. Find out why current science says they shouldn’t exist, and what this means for our understanding of the Big Bang and galaxy formation.

Every once in a while, a scientist “breaks the universe.” I don’t mean the real universe, of course, but only our model of it.

Copernicus shattered existing science when he disproved Aristotle’s model of the universe where the sun went around the Earth. Darwin blew up biology when he explained that species originate through a combination of descent with modification and natural selection.

Einstein smashed a complacent scientific establishment when he explained that time could pass at different rates in different frames of reference, and that the fabric of space could curve. The founders of quantum mechanics did something similar when they showed that different laws of physics apply in the subatomic world.

Hubble Discovered Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way

Edwin Hubble also caused quite a fracture when he discovered that there were…