00:03The James Webb Space Telescope is able to look further into the universe's past than any device ever has before.
00:09But recently, it detected these six massive galaxies that were formed when the universe was only 500 to 700 million
00:15years young,
00:16something experts believed was impossible.
00:19The researchers say this discovery sort of creates a problem for scientists,
00:22as it turns our understanding of early galactic formation on its head.
00:26Writing in a press release about their findings,
00:27The six galaxies we found are more than 12 billion years old, only 500 to 700 million years after the
00:34Big Bang,
00:34reaching sizes up to 100 billion times the mass of our sun.
00:38This is too big to even exist within current models.
00:40This discovery could transform our understanding of how the earliest galaxies in our universe formed.
00:45At that point in time, mass in the universe was still only just beginning to form the oldest stars.
00:50But galaxies are collections of millions upon millions of stars, and planets, and other objects.
00:55And these aren't just galaxies, but absolutely massive ones.
00:58So much so, the expected mass of dark matter is at odds with the observational data from the telescope's readings.
01:03Currently, the research team is looking for errors in their work,
01:06referring to these as universe breakers,
01:08explaining that while these look just like galaxies, it's possible there's something else altogether,
01:12something never before discovered.
01:14But what's clear is there are six unexplainable objects out there,
01:17and they have existed since the relative first moments when our universe came into being.
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