9/8/2026
Dark Matter · stars

JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars

Filed by Dr. Kai Vega
JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars
A new study finds that two early-universe objects thought to be faint quasars are actually extraordinarily luminous galaxies powered by bursts of star formation. James Webb Space Telescope observations of the galaxies, seen when the universe was less than a billion years old, reveal signatures of extremely massive stars, including some potentially more than 200 times the mass of the sun. The paper outlining this discovery was posted to the arXiv preprint server on Aug. 18.
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JWST finds extreme star-forming galaxies masquerading as faint quasars — Dark Matter