James Webb and the Crisis of the Big Bang Theory
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The James Webb Telescope and Its Discoveries Have Caused a Stir in Cosmology
The James Webb telescope is looking at a tiny proportion of the sky. It has found galaxies that appear to have been formed just 350 million years after the so-called big bang. This suggests they are very, very, we are looking at them very, very far back in time. We see very mature, very large galaxies, very bright galaxies at these distances. But it takes our galaxy, the Milky Way, 200 million years to carry out a single rotation about its axis. So we are talking about less than two rotations of the Milky Way.
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