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Did the James Webb Space Telescope disprove the Big Bang Theory?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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We're Already Seeing Giant, Old, Massive Galaxies

It's possible to get super duper massive galaxies very early on, but not this many. So we're seeing a lot of these giant, old galaxies. But they shouldn't even be there. We just have the first scoop of data from james webb and already in this little, tiny patch of space, we see many, many more of these bright, massive galaxies than we expect to see. Either it's a huge fluctuation, or there's something fuzzy about our measurements, or there’s something wrong about our understanding of the early universe,. Right? And also maybe about its composition as well.

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