Possible galaxy spotted by jwst could be the earliest we ever have late

Astronomers could have discovered a galaxy that formed extremely early in the universe, almost 200 million years before its closest competitor, but they are bail there could also be other explanations.

Giovanni Gandolfi at the University of Padua in Italy and his Colleugues examined data from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to look for distant objects that formed early in our 13.8 billion years of history.

The farther away a galaxy is from the ground, the longer its light will have taken to reach us, and the more it will be moved to the end of the spectrum by expanding space, a property known as red change.

So far, the earliest confirmed Galaxy-which was placed by JWST and is called Mom-Z14-HAS a red change of 14.4, which means that the light that now reached us from it began to travel against us when the universe was 280 million years old. However, Gandolfi and his team have reported an astonishing object with a red change of 32, suggesting that we see it as it was when the universe was only 90 million years old. They named it Capotauro after a mountain in Italy.

“Capotauro could be the farthest galaxy ever seen,” says Gandolfi on a “time scale compatible with the first stars and black holes formed in the universe”.

The team arrival at this conclusion by noticing a small blip in a deep jwst examination of the sky that seemed to be a distant galaxy. Using different filters on the telescope, the team could then calculate how much light from the galaxy would have the red change arrived at a figure of 32.

If correct, the object may be an extremely young galaxy in the training process or something more unusual as a prime black hole surrounded by a dense atmosphere – a hypothesical object known as a black hole star.

However, the supposed galaxy seems unusually bright, similar to galaxies seen by later red changes as MOM-Z14, giving it a suspected mass of about a billion times that of Sun-Beyond what our models suggest, should be possible on this universe.

To achieve such a mass, the efficiency where the galaxy turned gas into stars had to be closed to 100 per day. Hundreds, says Nicha Leethochawalit at the National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand: “It means no stars can explode. But modeling suggests no more than 10 to 20 percent possible.” I think something is wrong, ”she says.

If it’s not a galaxy, Gandolfi and his team say Objex could be installed explained with a brown dwarf – a failed star – or a junk planet in our galaxy that runs through JWST’s field of view similar to the distant block of a galaxy. Both of these explanations are also interesting, says Gandolfi, because it would be a particularly distant and cold -brown dwarf or planet, up to 6,000 light years away and at room temperature.

“It can be one of the first Substantry objects that are all formed in our galaxy,” says Gandolfi.

To find out for sure, the team would need follow -up time at JWST to choose the object’s light in finer details. Leethochawalit says that although she favors the explanation that this is not a galaxy, such a follow -up may still be worth doing.

“If it is a galaxy with a reedshift of 32, many things that we have thought so far would be wrong,” she says.

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