39 Ancient Galaxies

Astronomers Uncover 39 Ancient Galaxies — Moving So Fast That Even Hubble Can't See Them

By Rafi Letzter 4 days ago Space 

These galaxies could rewrite our history of the early universe.

Part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is pictured.

 (Image: © Image (c) 2019 Kohno et al.)

Ancint, massive galaxies haunting the dusty reaches of our universe have been in hiding, invisible to the eyes of the famous Hubble Space Telescope. But now, astronomers sifting through infrared data have discovered 39 of them — lurking in strange places from the early universe where (and when) the night sky would look very different from our own./.../