The James Webb Space Telescope has discovered the four most distant galaxies ever observed, one of which formed just 320 million years after the Big Bang when the Universe was still in its infancy, new research said on Tuesday.
journal, astronomers revealed they have"unambiguously detected" the four most distant galaxies ever observed.The galaxies date from 300 to 500 million years after the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago, when the Universe was just two percent of its current age.
That means the galaxies are from what is called"the epoch of reionization," a period when the first stars are believed to have emerged. The epoch came directly after the cosmic dark ages brought about by the Big Bang.Stephane Charlot, a researcher at the Astrophysics Institute of Paris and co-author of the two new studies, told AFP that the farthest galaxy – called JADES-GS-z13-0 – formed 320 million years after the Big Bang.
All four galaxies are"very low in mass," weighing roughly a hundred million solar masses, Charlot said. The Milky Way, in comparison, weighs 1.5 trillion solar masses by some estimations.Those stars were forming"at around the same rate as the Milky Way," a speed that was"surprising so early in the Universe," he added.
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