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Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true. The post Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe first appeared on Quanta…

Webb's early black holes and galaxies predate theoretical expectations — a cosmological parallel to the core LostStrata question of whether complexity emerges earlier than our models allow.
Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe
Source: https://www.quantamagazine.org/astrophysicists-puzzle-over-webbs-new-universe-20260702/

When Charlotte Mason ponders cosmic mysteries, she likes to doodle. “I am quite a visual person,” she said. “I usually draw a lot of pictures trying to understand what’s going on.” Mason, an astrophysicist at the Cosmic Dawn Center in Copenhagen, has lately been filling pages with sketches of “little red dots,” perplexing objects discovered by the hundreds in images from the James Webb Space…

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