{"id":11359,"date":"2025-08-07T09:50:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/?p=11359"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:36:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:36:22","slug":"nasa-spots-monsters-creating-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/nasa-spots-monsters-creating-life\/11359\/","title":{"rendered":"3 ‘red monster’ galaxies spotted by James Webb are 100 billion times the mass of our Sun and shouldn’t exist yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found three ‘red monsters’<\/strong> and they are challenging long-held notions about galaxy formation. JWST is one of the most powerful tools ever created to search the cosmos, and it brings fresh news from the universe constantly. Currently, it is located over 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, beyond the planet’s atmosphere – which it extends way beyond the previous thought. <\/span>NASA is powered with the most advanced technology to search the cosmos, and that’s what they use to unveil what was going on.<\/span><\/p>\n

NASA’s James Webb found ancient cosmic giant<\/h2>\n

The space agency is able not only to make updates in the ones on Earth, like the Vera C. Rubin, but also send updates remotely to space probes that are far away even from our solar system – where it’s already called Interstellar space. <\/span>Among the more curious mysteries uncovered by the powerful James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe are what scientists have dubbed “little red dots.” <\/span><\/p>\n

True to the name, these objects are small \u2014 far more compact than our Milky Way \u2014 and they emit a distinct reddish glow. But what truly puzzles astronomers from NASA is their strange light signatures<\/strong>, which so far have defied easy explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The dots were born “right after” the Big Bang<\/h2>\n

NASA just found three gigantic galaxies from the early days of the universe using the James Webb Space Telescope \u2014 and they’re unlike anything scientists expected. Nicknamed the “red monsters,” these galaxies are huge. We’re talking 100 billion times the mass of our Sun, about the same size as the Milky Way, but formed when the universe was less than a billion years old.<\/span><\/p>\n

That timeline doesn’t help scientists \u2014 at least, not with what we thought we knew. Stars aren’t supposed to form that fast. Galaxies aren’t supposed to grow that quickly<\/strong>. Yet here they are, showing up way ahead of schedule and breaking all the usual rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

What makes this even wilder is how efficiently these galaxies turned gas into stars. In most cases, only a small chunk of a galaxy’s gas turns into stars \u2014 around 20%. But the red monsters? They burned through up to 80% of their gas to build bright, young stars, like they were in a cosmic rush.<\/span><\/p>\n

How scientists found three ancient galaxies<\/h2>\n

Scientists used JWST’s FRESCO (First Reionization Epoch Spectroscopic Complete) Survey to catch the glow of these ancient giants. That red color isn’t just for show \u2014 it’s how their light looks after traveling across space for nearly 13 billion years<\/strong>. <\/span>Now, astronomers want a closer look. They’re planning to use JWST again, alongside the ALMA telescope in Chile, to figure out how these galaxies pulled this off. <\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever the answer is, it’s probably going to mess with a few textbooks. <\/span>As one of the researchers put it, some galaxies didn’t just show up early \u2014 they grew up fast<\/a>. <\/span>The team behind the discovery brought together more than three dozen astronomers<\/a> from across the globe \u2014 with names from the U.S., Switzerland, Denmark, the U.K., France, the Netherlands, Japan, Australia, and Spain all on the list.<\/span><\/p>\n

NASA can use telescopes can be used at the same time<\/h3>\n

NASA used two powerful telescopes to search the cosmos could be a great way to make new discoveries. Previously, the James Webb and the Chandra X-Ray<\/a> were responsible for finding something signaling Earth in a precise interval – what made scientists wonder why would anything sending morse signals to our planet every 44 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The James Webb was launched in December 2021, and so far it’s the most powerful telescope humanity ever created, but this might change shortly with the Vera C. Rubin in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Either way, the telescope will continue to function for decades in its halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope found three ‘red monsters’ and they are challenging long-held notions about galaxy formation. JWST is one of the most powerful tools ever created to search the cosmos, and it brings fresh news from the universe constantly. Currently, it is located over 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, beyond the planet’s atmosphere … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":11360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_focus_keyword":"NASA","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"NASA found something older than most planets and stars in the universe. Its formation happened \"only\" one billion years after the big expansion of matter.","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ecoportal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}