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We Found Galaxies Too Old for the Universe

Season 11 Episode 27 | 17m 41s

The James Webb Space Telescope found galaxies that are too ancient-looking for our young universe. You may have heard that, but it keeps finding them, and our recent efforts to solve this conundrum point in wildly different directions. Have we found galaxies older than the universe, or did we just learn something incredible about how galaxies form?

Aired: 04/29/26
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LIGO may have found an impossible black hole, hinting at primordial relics from the Big Bang.
DESI and DES studied dark energy. Together, what can they tell us?
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It's possible that an event horizon is forming right behind and you won't know until its too late.
Are there no alien signals to find... or do we need to update how we search for them?
Physicists hope Planck stars can save us from black hole singularities and paradoxes.
Earth's core: solid or liquid? Yes — we know more about distant galaxies than our own interior.