arXiv:2511.19736 (gr-qc) [Submitted on 24 Nov 2025] General relativity, early galaxy formation and the JWST observations Christos G. Tsagas
The James Webb Space Telescope has recently detected massive, fully formed, galaxies at redshifts corresponding to few hundred million years after the Big-Bang. However, our current cosmological model cannot produce such massive systems so early in the lifetime of the universe. A number of theoretical solutions have been proposed, but they all appeal to exotic new physics and introduce rather excessive fine-tuning. In this essay, we outline a theoretical answer to the early galaxy-formation question, which operates within standard general relativity and standard cosmology, without appealing to any new physics. Instead, we account for the effect of a well established feature of our universe. This feature, which has so far been kept in the margins of mainstream cosmology, are the peculiar velocities.
Comments: Received "Honorable Mention" in the 2025 GRF essay competition. Published in IJMPD Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO) Cite as: arXiv:2511.19736 [gr-qc]
arXiv:2511.19736 (gr-qc)
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General relativity, early galaxy formation and the JWST observations
Christos G. Tsagas
The James Webb Space Telescope has recently detected massive, fully formed, galaxies at redshifts corresponding to few hundred million years after the Big-Bang. However, our current cosmological model cannot produce such massive systems so early in the lifetime of the universe. A number of theoretical solutions have been proposed, but they all appeal to exotic new physics and introduce rather excessive fine-tuning. In this essay, we outline a theoretical answer to the early galaxy-formation question, which operates within standard general relativity and standard cosmology, without appealing to any new physics. Instead, we account for the effect of a well established feature of our universe. This feature, which has so far been kept in the margins of mainstream cosmology, are the peculiar velocities.
Comments: Received "Honorable Mention" in the 2025 GRF essay competition. Published in IJMPD
Subjects: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
Cite as: arXiv:2511.19736 [gr-qc]
Naked Mole Rat 22 years?
ReplyDelete@neo A notable paper which I bookmarked. Any explanation that doesn't involve BSM physics deserves serious attention.
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