Behemoth Galaxy From 12 Billion Years Ago Defies Spin, Outnumbers Milky Way in Stars
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.