The galaxy's rotation curve, an important characteristic of spiral galaxies, shows a pattern typical of flat rotation curves ...

The research was published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, in a study titled ‘The distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey’.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprising galaxy rotation pattern, where two-thirds rotate clockwise and one-third counterclockwise. This unexpected uniformity suggests a deeper ...

This discovery contradicts the longstanding assumption that the universe is isotropic, which would predict an equal distribution of galaxy rotation directions. The findings align with black hole ...

Instead, this pattern hints at an underlying force shaping cosmic rotation. The study used data from the James Webb Space Telescope Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Lead researcher Lior ...

Now new images have shown that around two-thirds of 263 galaxies imaged by Webb rotate in the opposite direction to our Milky ...

The paper, titled ‘The distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey’, sees Shamir outlining how he used a computer-aided quantitative method to analyze images of galaxy ...

In JWST observations, the Doppler effect could explain why galaxies rotating in the opposite direction to the Milky Way appear brighter. This could create an illusion of asymmetry in galaxy rotation, ...

The wavelength-dependence can be plotted as an "extinction curve," and its shape provides ... yet of the properties of dust in the Milky Way galaxy. Zhang and Green turned to data from ESA's ...

More information: Lior Shamir, The distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2025). DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staf292 ...