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About The First Galaxies Look Far Too Developed for Their Age

The universe was supposed to grow slowly, like a baby learning to walk. But some of its very first galaxies skipped the crawling stage entirely. The James Webb Space Telescope found galaxies born only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang already carrying black holes one hundred million times heavier than our sun, and star clusters worth one hundred billion suns. Scientists call them universe breakers. Today we travel to a galaxy caught eating its neighbor before Earth existed, a giant galaxy that refuses to spin, and hundreds of strange red dots that might be baby black holes wrapped in fire. If your mind wants answers as much as ours does, tap subscribe and stay close, because some of these mysteries just got solved, and the truth is stranger than the mystery itself. Prepare yourselves. We begin at the edge of time. Sources

The First Galaxies Look Far Too Developed for Their Age is presented by Late Science. Its listed runtime is 118 minutes. The source link and publisher attribution are provided with the embedded film.

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Title
The First Galaxies Look Far Too Developed for Their Age
Category
Society
Runtime
118 minutes
Language
English
Publisher
Late Science

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