Washington, May. Another major milestone has emerged in our quest to understand the universe. Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the clearest-ever map of the universe's vast hidden structure — the "cosmic web".
Analysing 164,000 galaxies
The cosmic web is the enormous network that connects galaxies across space. Under the massive COSMOS-Web survey, scientists analysed more than 164,000 galaxies to trace this structure back to when the universe was just a billion years old.
A surprising discovery
Around the same time, the Webb telescope also found a massive galaxy that formed less than two billion years after the Big Bang yet shows no rotation at all. That trait is usually seen only in much older, evolved galaxies — challenging current theories about young galaxies.