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Ep. 684: Too Big, Too Soon: Massive Early Galaxies Defy Expectations

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The Uncomfortable Mystery of the Ultra Diffuse Low Luminosity Galaxies

Using gravitational lensing, which is could not be harder. I mean, you don't totally understand the gravity of the situation by which I mean the literal gravity of that intervening galaxies. And just since we added this episode to the calendar, the field has changed four times. We're in completely brand new territory. The exciting is given the quantum mechanics, right? Like nobody ordered quantum mechanics. Nobody thought that that's how the universe worked and yet it does deal with it. This is where we could be going next.

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