<ul><li>Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a galaxy that challenges current understanding of the early universe.</li><li>The galaxy, named JADES-GS-z13-1, is seen as it was just 330 million years after the Big Bang, making it one of the oldest and most distant galaxies ever seen.</li><li>The galaxy's light contains a bright signal of Lyman-α radiation, which was unexpected because it was thought to be blocked by the neutral hydrogen fog of the early universe at that time.</li><li>Possible explanations include the presence of a huge bubble of ionized hydrogen or an active black hole in the galaxy.</li></ul>

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