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A Galaxy That Slept for Half a Billion Years ⚡ экспресс

Original: "An Ancient Descendant of the First Galaxies"
arXiv:2512.03154 · 2025-12-02 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Galaxies
The Webb telescope discovered the 'Sleepy' galaxy: after a brief burst of star formation, it went quiet for hundreds of millions of years.
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The James Webb Telescope found the 'Sleepy' galaxy: it flared with stars at the dawn of the universe, then fell asleep for hundreds of millions of years. Now scientists think bright early galaxies don't have to become giants—some turn into 'dwindling embers'.

🎯 By today, Sleepy would have become so dim that no modern telescope could see it—half a billion years of slumber have made it nearly invisible.

Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
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galaxy JWST big bang spectroscopy hydrogen
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Friedmann equationsHubble's lawDoppler effectgravitational lensingCoulomb's lawEinstein field equations
Original: arXiv:2512.03154 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds