{"id":220919,"date":"2025-08-25T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/xmm-vid1-2075-is-a-massive-evolved-and-slow-rotating-galaxy-observations-suggest"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:07:44","slug":"xmm-vid1-2075-is-a-massive-evolved-and-slow-rotating-galaxy-observations-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/xmm-vid1-2075-is-a-massive-evolved-and-slow-rotating-galaxy-observations-suggest","title":{"rendered":"XMM-VID1-2075 is a massive, evolved and slow-rotating galaxy, observations suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/xmm-vid1-2075-is-a-massive-evolved-and-slow-rotating-galaxy-observations-suggest2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have conducted spectroscopic observations of a high-redshift galaxy known as XMM-VID1-2075. Results of the observational campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2508.10987\" target=\"_blank\">presented<\/a> August 14 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>, suggest that XMM-VID1-2075 is a massive and evolved slow-rotator.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called \u201cslow-rotators\u201d represent a small fraction of the most massive <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/galaxies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">galaxies<\/a>, which stopped forming stars and are dispersion-supported systems. Such galaxies are highly evolved and often exist in dense cluster environments.<\/p>\n<p>To date, no slow-rotators have been confirmed from stellar kinematics beyond the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/redshift\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">redshift<\/a> of 2.0. It is generally assumed that at high redshifts, these slow-rotating systems are predicted to be rarely found.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have conducted spectroscopic observations of a high-redshift galaxy known as XMM-VID1-2075. Results of the observational campaign, presented August 14 on the pre-print server arXiv, suggest that XMM-VID1-2075 is a massive and evolved slow-rotator. The so-called \u201cslow-rotators\u201d represent a small fraction of the most massive galaxies, which stopped [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}