You’re not just looking at a galaxy… you're looking through a cosmic illusion.

This is a perfect Einstein Ring—captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, and it lies 12 billion light-years away at the edge of the observable universe.

What makes it mind-blowing?
You're seeing light that left this galaxy when the universe was just 1.4 billion years old—twisted by gravity into a flawless circle.

This isn’t just pretty—it’s physics bending light itself.
The massive galaxy in front acted like a cosmic magnifying glass, warping space and turning background starlight into this glowing halo.
That's gravitational lensing, and it’s pure Einstein.

But here's the twist:
JWST didn’t just take a pretty picture—it spotted carbon monoxide in the ring, a sign that this ancient galaxy was already making stars like crazy, just like galaxies today.

A ring of fire from the early universe...
A glimpse into galactic evolution…
And a reminder that sometimes, the universe really does bend to show us something extraordinary.

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A mind-bending discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is shaking the foundations of modern cosmology—suggesting that our universe may have been born inside a black hole.

The Clue: A Cosmic Rotation Imbalance
While studying early galaxies through the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES), astronomers found a strange pattern:
Out of 263 ancient galaxies observed, 66% spin clockwise, and only 34% spin counterclockwise.

In a universe with no preferred direction, we’d expect a 50-50 split. This unexpected bias has scientists thinking: could this be a leftover imprint from the very birth of the universe?

The Theory: A Universe Born from a Black Hole
This observation lines up with an intriguing idea called Schwarzschild cosmology, which proposes:

We Exist Inside a Black Hole:
Our universe could lie within the event horizon of a massive black hole in another, “parent” universe.

Black Holes Create Universes:
In physicist Nikodem Poplawski’s torsion theory, matter doesn’t collapse into a singularity—it gets spun and twisted by extreme gravity, forming an entirely new universe.

The Big Bang Wasn’t the Beginning—It Was a Bounce:
The Big Bang could have been matter rebounding from collapse inside a black hole. The spin of that black hole may have left its fingerprint on the rotation of galaxies in our universe—explaining the JWST’s puzzling spin imbalance.

Skepticism and Alternate Views
Not everyone is convinced. Some researchers suggest the anomaly might be caused by the Milky Way’s own spin influencing JWST’s readings. If that’s true, it may still offer key insights:

We may need to rethink how we measure the cosmos
It might help address big questions like the Hubble tension or the existence of unexpectedly mature galaxies in the early universe

If verified, this could change everything—not only about how we think black holes work, but about how our own universe came to be.

RESEARCH PAPER
Lior Shamir, “The distribution of galaxy rotation in JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey”, MNRAS (2025)

A groundbreaking study suggests that our early Sun may have been encircled by massive rings of dust—structures that shaped the very layout of our Solar System and may have prevented Earth from becoming a super-Earth.

According to researchers, these dusty rings were created by pressure “bumps”—high-pressure zones caused as particles spiraled inward, heated up, and released gases through vaporization.

These zones formed sublimation lines, where materials like silicates, water ice, and carbon monoxide turned from solid to gas. As a result, dust got trapped instead of falling into the Sun, clumping into planetesimals—the seeds of planets.

Simulations showed that:

The inner ring gave rise to Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

The middle ring helped birth the gas giants

The outer ring contributed to comets, asteroids, and Kuiper Belt objects

Interestingly, had the middle ring formed a bit later, more material could have gathered in the inner Solar System—potentially allowing super-Earths to form. Their absence is one of the mysteries that sets our planetary system apart from others across the galaxy.

RESEARCH PAPER
Andre Izidoro et al., Planetesimal rings as the cause of the Solar System’s planetary architecture, Nature Astronomy (2022)

Ever wondered where humanity and our robotic explorers have actually landed on the Moon? This map shows the historic touchdown sites of some of the most iconic lunar missions — from the legendary Apollo landings, to robotic Surveyor probes, Soviet Luna landers, and China’s recent Chang’e missions.

The U.S. Apollo program (1969–1972) sent 12 astronauts to walk on the Moon — a feat still unmatched.
NASA’s Surveyor missions helped test landing tech before the Apollo era.
The Soviet Union’s Luna landers were the first to impact, orbit, and soft-land on the Moon.
China made history with Chang’e-3 and Chang’e-4 — the first to land on the Moon's far side!

Each dot on this Moon map represents years of planning, incredible science, and the dream of exploring beyond Earth.

Which mission inspires you the most?

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Did Our Universe Begin Inside a Black Hole? A Shocking JWST Discovery Suggests It Might Have

A mind-bending find from the James Webb Space Telescope is shaking up everything we thought we knew about the universe's origin — and pointing to an idea once thought purely theoretical:
We may be living inside a black hole.

The Twist? A Cosmic Rotation Imbalance

Astronomers analyzing deep-space data from JWST’s JADES survey found something strange:
Out of 263 ancient galaxies, 66% rotate clockwise, and only 34% counterclockwise.
In a balanced, directionless universe, that’s a huge red flag — it should be 50/50.

So what could explain this cosmic bias?

A Universe Born From a Black Hole’s Spin

This fits a radical theory called Schwarzschild cosmology, which proposes:
Our universe was born inside a black hole in a parent universe
Black holes don’t end matter — they birth new universes through spin and spacetime torsion
The Big Bang was actually a bounce-back from gravitational collapse, imprinting the parent black hole’s spin onto newborn galaxies

The JWST’s data might be the first observable fingerprint of that ancient spin.

But not everyone’s convinced...

Alternative Theories
Some say this rotation imbalance may be a result of the Milky Way’s own spin skewing our view. If so, we may need to rethink how we:
Measure galactic motion
Solve cosmic puzzles like the Hubble tension and early galaxy formation

Whatever the answer, this discovery could redefine cosmology — showing that black holes may not destroy reality, but create it.

Research by Lior Shamir, MNRAS (2025)

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