Enormous Spiral Galaxy That Shouldn't Exist and What This Means for Cosmology

Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about the discovery of a massive spiral galaxy called Big Wheel Links: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02500-2 https://theconversation.com/youve-heard-of-the-big-bang-now-astronomers-have-discovered-the-big-wheel-heres-why-its-significant-252170 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/3/8941/7445010 #jwst #galaxy #cosmology 0:00 JWST discovers another giant galaxy that's hard to explain 1:45 Super spiral galaxies 2:40 Why this is a problem 3:30 Other similar discoveries from before 5:35 Why galaxies appear spirals and how spirals form 7:30 Conclusions and what this means Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF Space Engine is available for free here: http://spaceengine.org Enjoy and please subscribe. Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatDaMath Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whatdamath Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/whatdamath The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/34DUUlv CPU: https://amzn.to/2LZFQCJ Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Weichen Wang et al. (2025), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 TNG50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O674AZ_UKZk User:Dbenbenn / User:Mysid CC BY-SA 3.0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy#/media/File:Spiral_galaxy_arms_diagram.svg Takaaki Takeda, Sorahiko Nukatani, Takayuki R. Saitoh, 4D2U Project, NAOJ Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/