15 papers
The Road to Normalcy: Environment-Driven Evolutionary Pathways for Primordial Black Holes
Saiyang Zhang, Junehyoung Jeon, Boyuan Liu +2
We investigate how cosmological environment regulates the evolution of primordial black hole (PBH) seeds in the early universe using a suite of hydrodynamical simulations. Unlike t…
What is Powering the Enigmatic He II Emitter Hebe: The First Stars or Black Holes?
Junehyoung Jeon, Tae Bong Jeong, Saiyang Zhang +1
Recent high-resolution spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has confirmed the presence of a strong He II emitting clump in the vicinity of GN-z11,…
Resolving galaxy formation in the early Universe with BonFIRE and CampFIRE
Jenna Samuel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Robert Feldmann +16
The abundance and rapid growth of galaxies at cosmic dawn revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope challenges models of galaxy formation, motivating new simulations to uncover th…
A black hole in a near-pristine galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang
Roberto Maiolino, Hannah Uebler, Francesco D'Eugenio +36
The recent discovery of a large number of massive black holes within the first two billion years after the Big Bang, as well as their peculiar properties, have been largely unexpec…
The Cliff: A Metal-Poor Little Red Dot Hosting an Overmassive Black Hole at
Lucy R. Ivey, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +19
JWST has revealed a large population of massive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe with unusual properties which mark them as distinct from low-redshift active galactic nuclei…
Impact of initial mass function on the chemical evolution of high-redshift galaxies
Boyuan Liu, Michela Mapelli, Volker Bromm +10
Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have found evidence for an invariant relation between stellar mass, metallicity, and star formation rate up to $z\sim 8…