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JWST Finds Early Galaxies Were Already Seeding the Universe with Heavy Elements

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Early galaxies were already seeding the cosmos with heavy elements, such as oxygen and carbon, just 500 million years after the Big Bang.
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According to data from the James Webb space telescope, galaxies have already distributed heavy elements at the beginning of reionization, which could solve another mystery.

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Already a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, the gas was enriched with carbon, oxygen and silicon around some bright galaxies. Spectra of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show that this material moved relative to the galaxies. The signatures speak for early material cycles and are compatible with outflows, but can not be clearly only through outflowing gas [...] The article JWST shows how early galaxies distributed heavy elements…

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scinexx.de broke the news on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
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