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Themiya Nanayakkara

2 articles · 30 co-authors · latest: 2026-07-01

Radio Message from When the Universe Was Young

A brief radio flash came from a galaxy that existed soon after the Big Bang. The James Webb Space Telescope helped pinpoint its source—a small, clumpy cluster of stars bustling with star birth. This is the first flash traced to an object at such a distance, and it now allows us to study invisible ga
arXiv:2508.01648 · 2025-08-03

The Hourglass of an Ancient Galaxy: JWST Spots Maturity That Arrived Too Soon

Analysis of images from JWST and Hubble with NIRSpec spectroscopy has revealed details of a distant disk galaxy at z=0.92. Multi-component modeling showed that an X-shaped bulge 4.5 kpc long and a bar of about 12 kpc were already present when the Universe was only 6.2 billion years old. A total stel
arXiv:2607.00982v1 · 2026-07-01