It's June 2014, and the James Webb Space Telescope has managed to detect the most distant galaxy. The telescope had already detected others, and is continuing to do so.
Now, it has detected a galaxy, which according to the data is approximately 13.5 billion years old. And you can locate this galaxy in the most detailed photo taken by James Webb.
In it we can see JADES GS z14, an extremely bright galaxy, but remember that this light is 13.5 billion years old, meaning that the galaxy must now be a large black hole. This new discovery means that the pillars holding up the Big Bang theory are starting to break down.
This is because this galaxy is extremely bright, emitting hydrogen and oxygen, which would determine generations of stars, because oxygen could only exist externally, with the destruction of stars.
And therein lies the problem: it's 290 million years after the Big Bang, and a star lasts an average of 1 billion to 10 billion years. And how could the stars have exploded in 290 million years, if the average lifespan is in billions of years?
What's more, in the 290 million years since the Big Bang, there shouldn't even have been light, it's called the dark ages.
Today, James Webb's discoveries are increasingly shattering the Big Bang theory, to the point where the idea of instantaneous galaxies being produced by the Big Bang is now being developed. In fact, there is an overwhelming race to find mechanisms that preserve the Big Bang theory. In a way, science should never be about trying to save a theory.
