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Why did the astrophysicist couple break up?

They needed more space.

Space, and our understanding of the early days of the universe seems to be changing.

The James Webb Telescope has yielded some findings that seem remarkably foolish. Either that, or it’s resulted in members of that group to gush excitedly about the nature of their findings.

The Guardian recently ran with an article titled: James Webb Telescope detects evidence of ancient ‘universe breaker galaxies’

Universe breakers? It has been looking back in time and has found galaxies that have grown too big too fast. Well, they seem to have grown too big too fast for our current understanding of astrophysics.

“These objects are way more massive​ than anyone expected,” said Joel Leja, an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State University and a study co-author. “We expected only to find tiny, young, baby galaxies at this point in time, but we’ve discovered galaxies as mature as our own in what was previously und…

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