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astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

The Cliff: A Metal-Poor Little Red Dot Hosting an Overmassive Black Hole at

Lucy R. Ivey, Francesco D'Eugenio, Roberto Maiolino +18

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…

astro-ph.GA2026

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,…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Novel Formation Channel for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the Early Universe via Primordial Black Holes

Saiyang Zhang, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm

We present a novel formation channel for supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries in the early Universe, driven by primordial black holes (PBHs). Using high-resolution hydrodynamica…

astro-ph.GA2025

BlackTHUNDER: Evidence of three massive black holes in a z~5 galaxy

Hannah Übler, Giovanni Mazzolari, Roberto Maiolino +41

We present observational evidence of three massive, accreting black holes (BHs) in the z=5.0167 galaxy J0148-4214 from JWST/NIRSpec-IFU spectroscopy. The BHs are revealed through b…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 17 cited

A direct black hole mass measurement in a Little Red Dot at the Epoch of Reionization

Ignas Juodžbalis, Cosimo Marconcini, Francesco D'Eugenio +37

Recent discoveries of faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at the redshift frontier have revealed a plethora of broad \Halpha emitters with optically red continua, named Little Red D…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 27 cited

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…