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James Webb Shocks Scientists with a Galaxy That Shouldn_t Exist

A speck of light buried in ancient data. A galaxy fully formed when the universe was just three percent of its current age. And a discovery that has cosmologists questioning everything they thought they knew about the Big Bang.In this episode, I uncover the James Webb Space Telescope's most shocking finding to date: massive, mature galaxies that appear to have formed only 500 to 700 million years after the universe began [citation:8]. These "Red Monsters" are forming stars twice as efficiently as galaxies of the same age should, challenging the standard Lambda Cold Dark Matter model that has…

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