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Chaos, Not Order: Early Galaxies Discovered by Webb Telescope
10/23/2025
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- James Webb Space Telescope observations show galaxies formed 800 million to 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang were chaotic, not orderly disks.
- Researchers from the University of Cambridge analyzed over 250 galaxies and found most were clumpy with gas moving in many directions.
- Turbulence arose from intense star formation and gravitational instabilities.
- The study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, links early chaos to structured galaxies.
