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The unexpectedly large abundance of UV-bright galaxies at $z>10$ discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope poses a significant challenge to the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. This work tests whether modifying the cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Anirban Chakraborty , Tirthankar Roy Choudhury , Anjan Ananda Sen , Purba Mukherjee

Early observations with JWST have led to the discovery of an unexpected large density (stellar mass density $\rho_*\approx 10^{6}\,M_{\odot}\,Mpc^{-3}$) of massive galaxies (stellar masses $M_*\geq 10^{10.5}M_{\odot}$) at extremely high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 N. Menci , M. Castellano , P. Santini , E. Merlin , A. Fontana , F. Shankar

This study is devoted to the cosmological "angular size - redshift" test. An analysis is performed of the angular and linear sizes of galaxies from the new ASTRODEEP-JWST catalogue, which contains over 500,000 objects at high redshifts (up…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-05 A. A. Raikov , V. V. Tsymbal , N. Yu. Lovyagin

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is unveiling astounding results about the first few hundred million years of life of the Universe, delivering images of galaxies at very high redshifts. Here, we develop a UV luminosity function model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-17 Fabio Iocco , Luca Visinelli

The very first light captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) revealed a population of galaxies at very high redshifts more massive than expected in the canonical $\Lambda$CDM model of structure formation. Barring, among others, a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Matteo Forconi , William Giarè , Olga Mena , Ruchika , Eleonora Di Valentino , Alessandro Melchiorri , Rafael C. Nunes

JWST observations have revealed an overabundance of bright galaxies at $z \geq 9$, creating apparent tensions with theoretical predictions within standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We address this challenge using a semi-empirical approach…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Abhijnan Kar , Shadab Alam , Joseph Silk

From James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) surveys, 31 galaxies with average redshift 7.3 are selected containing large Balmer break, Lyman-$\alpha$ break (V-shaped SED versus $\lambda$). Apart from Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and JWST-NIRCam…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 M. Lopez-Corredoira , C. M. Gutierrez

Early JWST observations have revealed substantial numbers of galaxies out to redshifts as high as $z \simeq 14$, reflecting a slow evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function (LF) not anticipated by many models of galaxy evolution. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-16 C. T. Donnan , J. S. Dunlop , R. J. McLure , D. J. McLeod , F. Cullen

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

Recent studies have reported a non evolution of galaxy ages at redshifts higher than $z\sim$ 2.5, as well as galaxies older than the Universe. In this work, a sample of galaxies from JWST and HST was analysed via photometry to further…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Eric E. Martínez-García

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is expected to observe galaxies at $z>10$ that are presently inaccessible. Here, we use a self-consistent empirical model, the UniverseMachine, to generate mock galaxy catalogues and lightcones over the…

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

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 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

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

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened a window on many new puzzles in the early Universe, including a population of high-redshift star clusters with extremely high stellar surface density, suggesting unique star formation…

Observations of the early universe at redshifts of order 10, collected during the last several years presented by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and recent data by the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) created strong doubts on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-17 A. D. Dolgov

The recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have led to a surprising discovery of a significant density of massive galaxies with masses of $M \ge 10^{10.5} M_{\odot}$ at redshifts of approximately $z\sim 10$. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Matteo Forconi , Ruchika , Alessandro Melchiorri , Olga Mena , Nicola Menci