Ancient Protocluster Defies Early-Universe Timing
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory identified JADES-ID1 as a protocluster with at least 66 galaxies and enveloped in million-degree gas, already amassing about 20 trillion solar masses just one billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier than models predict and prompting questions about how the universe’s largest structures form.
Topics:science#chandra-x-ray-observatory#early-universe#galaxy-cluster#james-webb-space-telescope#protocluster#space
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