When NASA released James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)for its acronym in English was felt to open a new era in the history of space exploration and star studies.
However, in this short period of time we were able to verify that some of the previous expectations about this device were really short.
Report after report, discovery and discovery, the scientific community has been able to make leaps and bounds with each piece of new information, while expanding our vision of the world, throwing out certain paradigms in the process.
However, something happened that not many people expected, when the James Webb Telescope not long ago recently captured data that belonged to six primitive galaxies, which would technically defend all the scientific theories that have been conceived so far.
In fact, the data collected is so unique in all its parameters that there is a real possibility that it is not even a galaxy. It will be necessary to restore a good part of the theoretical requirements conceived up to now.
The James Webb Space Telescope and the mystery of galaxies
It turns out that James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) NASA just published the first controversial study in this February 22, 2023 journal naturewith an analysis of the details of a series of studies where they discovered six new galaxies so massive that they could rebuild our understanding of the origin of the universe.
The research data is based on the first set of data collected by JWST last year. Where there are six young galaxies, they have a mass between 10,000 and 100,000 million times that of the Sun.
But the detail is disturbing and almost disturbing: these formations have a mass equivalent to the Milky Way, but would be up to 30 times denser. This challenges various paradigms and ideas about the study of the universe.
A very clear analogy, from Dr. Ivo Labbe, principal investigator and professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Australia.
If the Milky Way were a normal average adult with a height of 1.75 meters and a weight of 70 kilograms, these galaxies would have the same weight as a six-year-old child, but their height would not exceed 7 centimeters.
“No one expected to find this. These candidate galaxies are simply too evolved for our predictions. They appear to have evolved faster than our standard models allow.
The exciting thing is that although only some galaxies have turned out to be massive, these are so massive that our current measurements alone invert the total mass of stars.
It suggests that 10 to 100 times more stellar mass exists at this time than expected, and implies that galaxies are forming much faster in the universe than previously thought.
This is what Joel Leja, an astrophysicist at Penn State and the author of the study, comments on the possibility that these discoveries are not even a new series of galaxies, but quite the opposite.
It is necessary to collect more data, since with the available data and compiled parameters it is clearly possible that there are supermassive black holes instead of galaxies.
But in the event that this does not happen, by the way, we have to make a radical shift to the model.
