"Big bang theory didn’t expect massive galaxies so early, but they’ve known about this problem for
over a decade. Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) reported an unexpectedly large number of massive galaxies in the early universe.
The team led by Karina Caputi counted 574 massive galaxies estimated to have existed justone billion years after the big bang. The big bang is commonly dated at 13.7 billion years ago. Why is that a problem? In addition, the astronomers found that massive galaxies were more plentiful than had been thought. Galaxies that were previously hidden make up half of the total number of massive galaxies present when the Universe was between 1.1 and 1.5 billion years old. These new results, however, contradict current models of how galaxies evolved in the early Universe, which do not predict any monster galaxies at these early times.
To complicate things further, if massive galaxies are unexpectedly dustier in the early Universe than astronomers predict then even UltraVISTA wouldn’t be able to detect them." CEH
The team led by Karina Caputi counted 574 massive galaxies estimated to have existed just
To complicate things further, if massive galaxies are unexpectedly dustier in the early Universe than astronomers predict then even UltraVISTA wouldn’t be able to detect them." CEH
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof... Isaiah 13:10
