21-10-2023 17:34 via science.slashdot.org

JWST's Disconnect With Cosmology Models Linked to 'Bursty Star Formations'

Images from the James Webb Space Telescope "don't match scientists' models of how the universe formed," reports the Washington Post.
"But it might not be time to dump the standard model of cosmology yet. "A recent analysis in the Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests an explanation for the surprisingly massive-seeming galaxies: brilliant, extremely bright bursts of newborn stars.
The galaxies photographed by the telescope looked far too mature and large to have formed so fully so soon after the
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