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A cosmic 'leaf blower': Light-propelled winds help explain early universe's bright galaxies

When astronomers looked at photos of the early universe taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, they found something odd: an overabundance of bright galaxies. Based on what they knew about the early universe, such galaxies should have been far less common in the few hundred million years following...

A cosmic 'leaf blower': Light-propelled winds help explain early universe's bright galaxies
Image: Phys.org
When astronomers looked at photos of the early universe taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, they found something odd: an overabundance of bright galaxies. Based on what they knew about the early universe, such galaxies should have been far less common in the few hundred million years following the Big Bang.

Originally published at Phys.org

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