In just over three years, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has provided amazing insights into deep space. A new study by Lior Shamir, a computer science professor at Kansas State University, reveals an interesting finding: most galaxies in the deep universe rotate in the same direction. About two-thirds of these galaxies rotate clockwise, and a third rotate counterclockwise.

Shamir’s study, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, looked at 263 galaxies in the JADES field, where their rotation could be clearly seen. The unusual part is that in a random universe, galaxies should rotate in both directions equally, but the Webb Telescope images show a strong preference for one direction.

Shamir suggests two possible explanations for this. One is that the universe itself may have been born with a rotation, supporting theories like black hole cosmology. The second idea is that the light from galaxies rotating opposite Earth’s direction could appear brighter due to the Doppler shift effect, which might explain why such galaxies are seen more often.

This discovery may require astronomers to rethink how we measure distances in space and could help solve other mysteries in cosmology, such as the differences in the universe’s expansion rate.