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"Face the fact"? These scientists are very excited to find a whole new era of the universe that they don't understand: > QSO1 and the rest of the little red do
by roywiggins 1y ago
"Face the fact"? These scientists are very excited to find a whole new era of the universe that they don't understand:
> QSO1 and the rest of the little red dots “tell us we don’t know anything,” said John Regan, a theorist at Maynooth University in Ireland. “It has been really exciting and very electrifying for the field.”
This is pure candy to a scientist. "Holy crap, we have no idea what this object is or how it formed" was always the hoped-for outcome for the JWST. Nobody wanted to see more of the same, especially not for the price.