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Vaguely banana-shaped galaxies detected by JWST (top row) and simulations of how galaxies would look if formed under the influence of wave dark matter (row 2), warm dark matter (row 3) and cold dark matter (row 4)
Alvaro Pozo et al. (2024)
A surprising number of distant “banana-shaped” galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be tracing a vast web of dark matter from the universe’s first moments, and may even be a sign of strange kinds of dark matter. Working out which types could help us understand how galaxies across the universe formed.
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