James Webb Space Telescope reveals unexpected ‘Red Monsters’ in the early universe
he 3 "Red Monsters," caught by the James Webb Space Telescope, are incredibly enormous, dirty galaxies formed in the very first billion years after the Big Bang. (Image credit: NASA/CSA/ESA, M. Xiao & & P. A. Oesch (University of Geneva), G. Brammer (Niels Bohr Institute), Dawn JWST Archive)
For a long period of time, astronomers thought galaxy development followed a really particular design: cosmic gas gathers in clumps, stars are born from those clumps, and, over billions of years, excellent communities slowly increase in size. The James Webb Space Telescope, introduced in December 2021, has actually interfered with that design.In a brand-new research study, researchers recognized 3 enormous galaxies-- called "Red Monsters"-- each nearly the size of the Milky Way, currently ou...