4 papers
A GLIMPSE of Intermediate Mass Black holes in the epoch of reionization: Witnessing the Descendants of Direct Collapse?
Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Rohan P. Naidu +17
JWST has revealed an abundance of supermassive black holes (BHs) in the early Universe, and yet the lowest mass seed black holes that gave rise to these populations remain elusive.…
Little Red Dots and their Progenitors from Direct Collapse Black Holes
Junehyoung Jeon, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm +7
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered a new population of objects, the Little Red Dots (LRDs), characterized by V-shaped spectra indicative of strong breaks around t…
How do Massive Primordial Black Holes Impact the Formation of the First Stars and Galaxies?
Saiyang Zhang, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm +3
We investigate the impact of massive primordial black holes (PBHs; ) on the star formation and first galaxy assembly process using high-resolution hy…
The Emerging Black Hole Mass Function in the High-Redshift Universe
Junehyoung Jeon, Boyuan Liu, Anthony J. Taylor +5
Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified an abundant population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) already in place during the first few hundred mil…