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Early data from JWST have revealed a bevy of high-redshift galaxy candidates with unexpectedly high stellar masses. An immediate concern is the consistency of these candidates with galaxy formation in the standard cosmological model. In the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-22 Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered massive galaxies at high redshifts, with their abundance significantly surpassing expectations. This finding poses a substantial challenge to both galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-14 Jun-Qian Jiang , Weiyang Liu , Hu Zhan , Bin Hu

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have unveiled several galaxies with stellar masses $M_*\gtrsim10^{10} M_\odot$ at redshifts $7.4\lesssim z\lesssim 9.1$. These remarkable findings indicate an unexpectedly high stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-04 Pei Wang , Bing-Yu Su , Lei Zu , Yupeng Yang , Lei Feng

The presence of massive galaxies at high $z$ as recently observed by JWST appears to contradict the current $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. Here we aim to alleviate this tension by incorporating uncertainties from three sources in counting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-08 Yangyao Chen , H. J. Mo , Kai Wang

Early observations from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed an overabundance of massive high-redshift galaxies, raising the question of whether this points to new physics beyond $\Lambda$CDM, or an enhanced formation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-07 Leonardo Comini , Sunny Vagnozzi , Abraham Loeb

Surveys with James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered candidate galaxies in the first 400 Myr of cosmic time. Preliminary indications have suggested these candidate galaxies may be more massive and abundant than previously thought.…

Recent observations by JWST yield a large abundance of luminous galaxies at $z\gtrsim 10$ compared to that expected in the CDM scenario based on extrapolations of the star formation efficiency measured at lower redshifts. While several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-31 Nicola Menci , Anjan Ananda Sen , Marco Castellano

Early observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revealed the existence of an unexpectedly large abundance of extremely massive galaxies at redshifts $z \gtrsim 5$: these observations are in tension with the predictions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-31 Nicola Menci , Shahnawaz A. Adil , Upala Mukhopadhyay , Anjan A. Sen , Sunny Vagnozzi

We compare the maximal abundance of massive systems predicted in different dynamical dark energy (DDE) models at high redshifts z = 4-7 with the measured abundance of the most massive galaxies observed to be already in place at such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-27 N. Menci , A. Grazian , M. Castellano , P. Santini , E. Giallongo , A. Lamastra , F. Fortuni , A. Fontana , E. Merlin , T. Wang , D. Elbaz , N. G. Sanchez

Early JWST observations reveal an unexpectedly abundant population of high-redshift candidate massive galaxies at $z \gtrsim 7$, and recent DESI measurements show a preference for dynamical dark energy, which together present a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Sheng-Han Zhou , Tian-Nuo Li , Guo-Hong Du , Jun-Qian Jiang , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled unexpectedly massive galaxy candidates at high redshifts, challenging standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmological predictions. In this work, we study the predictions of more realistic dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-17 Saeed Fakhry , Reyhaneh Vojoudi Salmani , Javad T. Firouzjaee

Early observations with JWST indicate an over-abundance of bright galaxies at redshifts $z \gtrsim 10$ relative to Hubble-calibrated model predictions. More puzzling still is the apparent lack of evolution in the abundance of such objects…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Jordan Mirocha , Steven R. Furlanetto

The discovery of massive, high redshift galaxies with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been argued to challenge $\Lambda$CDM (cold dark matter): such systems would require extremely rare halos and baryon-to-stellar-mass conversion…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Jay R. Krishnan , Kevork N. Abazajian

Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed massive galaxies at very high redshift ($z\simeq 7-15$). The question of whether the existence of such galaxies is expected in the corresponding JWST surveys has received a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 Qianran Xia , Dragan Huterer , Nhat-Minh Nguyen

Early JWST studies reporting an unexpected abundance of massive galaxies at $z \sim 5$--$8$ challenge galaxy formation models in the $\Lambda$CDM framework. Previous stellar mass ($M_\star$) estimates suffered from large uncertainties due…

Observations with the {\it James Webb Space Telescope} have revealed a high abundance of bright galaxies at redshift, $z\gtrsim 12$, which has been widely interpreted as conflicting with the $\Lambda$CDM model. In Cowley et al. (2018)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-27 Shengdong Lu , Carlos S. Frenk , Sownak Bose , Cedric G. Lacey , Shaun Cole , Carlton M. Baugh , John C. Helly

This conference proceedings paper provides a short summary of the constraints presented by Menci et al. (2020) and Menci et al. (2022) to dynamical dark energy models. Dynamical dark energy (DDE) models have been proposed to address several…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-11 Paola Santini , Nicola Menci , Marco Castellano

Early photometric results from JWST have revealed a number of galaxy candidates above redshift 10. The initial estimates of inferred stellar masses and the associated cosmic star formation rates are above most theoretical model predictions…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-04 Corey Brummel-Smith , Danielle Skinner , Snigdaa S. Sethuram , John H. Wise , Bin Xia , Khushi Taori

Early data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered the existence of a surprisingly abundant population of very massive galaxies at extremely high redshift, which are hard to accommodate within the standard $\Lambda$CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-25 Shahnawaz A. Adil , Upala Mukhopadhyay , Anjan A. Sen , Sunny Vagnozzi
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