Fully formed galaxies existed billions of years earlier than thought

Astronomers are surprised to discover that 8 to 11 billion years ago, or between 3 and 6 billion years after the so-called Big Bang, there were many fully formed, mature galaxies. According to the dominant theory of galactic evolution, the assumption had been that mature galaxies did not appear until much later. “[A]t this early stage,” writes spaceref.com, “galaxies should have formed from the bottom up, with small pieces crashing together to build small and then ever larger galaxies.” Hmm, little bits of gas just sort of building themselves by some sort of random process into the vast supernal entities we call stars and galaxies. Sounds kind of like the Darwinian theory of evolution, doesn’t it?

Posted by Lawrence Auster at July 08, 2004 02:20 AM | Send