Astronomers Uncover , Massive Galaxies , Near the Dawn of the Cosmos.<br />'The Independent' reports that astronomers have observed <br />what they believe to be massive galaxies dating back <br />to within 600 million years of the Big Bang. .<br />According to a team out of Swinburne University of <br />Technology, the observation suggests the early universe <br />had a stellar fast-track that created these "monsters.".<br />While older galaxies have been observed before, <br />what surprised scientists about these <br />mega-galaxies was their size and maturity.<br />While most galaxies in this era are <br />still small and only gradually growing <br />larger over time, there are a few <br />monsters that fast-track to maturity. , Ivo Labbe, lead researcher at Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology, <br />via 'The Independent'.<br />Why this is the case or how <br />this would work is unknown, Ivo Labbe, lead researcher at Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology, <br />via 'The Independent'.<br />'The Independent' reports that these galaxy observations <br />came from the first data set collected by NASA and <br />the European Space Agency's $10 billion Webb telescope. .<br />The revelation that massive galaxy <br />formation began extremely early <br />in the history of the universe upends <br />what many of us had thought <br />was settled science, Joel Leja, Pennsylvania State University, <br />via 'The Independent'.<br />It turns out we found something <br />so unexpected it actually creates <br />problems for science. It calls <br />the whole picture of early <br />galaxy formation into question, Joel Leja, Pennsylvania State University, <br />via 'The Independent'.<br />According to Pennsylvania State University’s <br />Joel Leja, it's possible that a few of the massive objects <br />might actually be supermassive black holes.<br />All six of the objects observed, whether galaxies or black <br />holes, look to weigh billions of times more than our sun, <br />with one of them weighing 100 billion times more.
