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There are many doubts about everything that surrounds the Earth in the immensity of space. However, thanks to the incessant research being carried out, there is more and more data that provides us with information and reveals new theories that astronomers are beginning to consider.
The latest discovery has been the most important, as several astronomers have located oxygen in the most distant galaxy that had been observed in history. This is the galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0.
This suggests and calls into question several theories about how compression occurs and, above all, the speed at which galaxies form, even going so far as to address the Big Bang. But even two different teams of astronomers have come to this conclusion, having detected this gas in the aforementioned galaxy.
It was discovered thanks to the ALMA telescope
It is worth noting why this has been discovered and it is due to a gigantic apparatus. Specifically, it is the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, or better known as ALMA, a powerful telescope located in Atacama, Chile. In addition, this project is in collaboration with the European Southern Observatory.
This is something that had never been seen before, so it has made all the theories that encom the speed at which galaxies can form have a new avenue of research. It is worth mentioning that this galaxy is being observed at 13.4 billion light years, so its image from Earth is from when it was less than 300 million years old, in short, only 2% of its life.
Sander Schouws, first author of the study for The Astrophysical Journal, confirmed: "The results show that the galaxy formed and matured very quickly, adding to the growing evidence that galaxy formation occurs much faster than expected."