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Webb caught a massive galaxy that doesn’t spin at all, breaking the rule that young galaxies still rotate

A massive galaxy observed when the universe was less than two billion years old shows almost no rotation, defying the expectation that early galaxies retain ordered spin from their formation. The ...
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A giant galaxy in the early universe just turned up with no spin at all — a trait astronomers thought only long-dead galaxies could have

Less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang, a galaxy roughly three times the mass of the Milky Way had already stopped forming stars, settled into a bloated shape, and lost something astronomers did ...