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The Skeptics Guide #934 - Jun 3 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Supermassive Star Polluter Model

Researchers use the powerful infrared cameras on the James Webb Space Telescope to look at one of the oldest galaxies that we know. This galaxy is GNZ11 and that fit the bill very well. The light left that galaxy when the universe was far denser and only 440 million years old. There was a high proportion of nitrogen and an extremely high density of stars. They believe that it's likely that they are observing in this galaxy young globular clusters, which potentially still have supermassive stars inside or at least it did right when the light left 13 billion years ago.

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