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Rohan Naidu

Rohan Naidu

Lead Author, MoM-z14 Discovery Paper

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With Webb, we are able to see farther than humans ever have before, and it looks nothing like what we predicted.

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James Webb telescope rewrites the cosmic dawn

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Active researcher at MIT Kavli Institute

In January 2026, NASA confirmed MoM-z14 as the most distant galaxy ever observed, formed 280 million years after the Big Bang. JWST has kept adding to the list: a non-rotating dead galaxy, a dust-rich red galaxy at 400 million years old, and a 164,000-galaxy map of the cosmic web—all published in the months since.

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