JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules - Peer2Peer

JWST finds a stellar bar in the early universe that breaks all rules

May 31, 2026

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered a stellar bar in GN20, a massive galaxy seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang. The new paper was submitted to the preprint server arXiv on May 14.

https://phys.org/news/2026-05-jwst-stellar-bar-early-universe.html

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