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Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered dormant galaxies with a wide range of masses in the first billion years after the Big Bang, moving one step closer to ...

This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com. Astronomers have discovered over a dozen "dormant" galaxies that paused their star formation within the first billion years after ...