Nature Astronomy (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-026-02855-0"> JWST/NIRSpec/IFU data of XMM-VID1-2075. Credit: Nature Astronomy (2026). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-026-02855-0 Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have made a surprising discovery about a galaxy long, long ago and far, far away: It isn't rotating. That's something only seen in the most massive, mature galaxies that are closer to us in space and time, said Ben Forrest, a research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Davis, and first author on the paper published May 4 in Nature Astronomy . "This one in particular did not show any evidence of rotation, which was surprising and very interesting," Forrest said. According to current theories, as the first galaxies formed, angular momentum from inflowing gas and the influence of gravity set them spinning.…