All articles tagged with #slow rotator
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (MAGAZ3NE) found the massive early-universe galaxy XMM-VID1-2075 with essentially no rotation—a surprising 'slow rotator' for its age less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang—likely due to a past major collision or interactions that canceled angular momentum; researchers are expanding the search for similar spinless galaxies to test current galaxy-formation theories.
The James Webb Space Telescope revealed XMM-VID1-2075, a massive galaxy from about 12 billion years ago with several times more stars than the Milky Way, yet showing no detectable rotation, challenging current ideas about early galaxy dynamics and suggesting a possible single high-energy interaction rather than multiple mergers.
Using JWST, astronomers observed galaxy XMM-VID1-2075 at a high redshift of 3.45, finding it to be a massive, evolved, slow-rotating galaxy with properties suggesting it underwent merger activity, making it the highest redshift slow-rotator identified so far.