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Chris J. Willot

1 articles · 30 co-authors · latest: 2026-06-01

The Mystery of 'Impossible' Galaxies: How Outer Color Maps Are Rescuing Cosmology

Using NIRCam on JWST, astronomers studied four supermassive quiescent galaxies whose light has been traveling to us for over 11 billion years. It turns out that in three of them, the color shifts smoothly from center to outskirts: red old cores surrounded by bluer, younger regions. This color map re
arXiv:2606.02698v1 · 2026-06-01