Oooops, they didn't find the predicted abundance of early Population III stars where they are predicted to exist. Another truly *epic* predictive failure for the LCDM model.New results from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope suggest the formation of the first stars and galaxies in the early Universe took place sooner than previously thought. A European team of astronomers have found no evidence of the first generation of stars, known as Population III stars, as far back as when the Universe was just 500 million years old.
There's literally nothing that the LCDM model actually "predicts" correctly. I'm so sick and tired of hearing astronomers falsely claim that the LCDM model makes "accurate predictions". Nothing could be further from the truth. Every single high redshift observation blows more massive holes in the LCDM model. Nothing about it works as "predicted".
Just think about this for a moment now. Not only does the LCDM model violate conservation of energy laws, it's *refuted* by observational evidence galore! Not only did it fail to correctly predict the existence of an abundance of Population III stars in the early universe, it failed to predict those massive and mature galaxies and quasars in the early universe too. It's still got a five plus sigma *self conflict* associated with the Hubble constant rate even *after* adding liberal doses of "dark energy" to save the otherwise falsified expansion model. There's more observational evidence to *refute* the LCDM model than there is to actually support it!
So what would you like to bet that the JWST will continue to find no evidence at all for an abundance of Population III stars at the limits of it's range, while finding evidence for massive and mature galaxies and quasars at the limits of it's detection range too?