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20242026
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10 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

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.GA2026

GLIMPSE-DDT spectroscopic properties of faint-end galaxies at : Towards first metal enrichment, dust production, and ionizing photon production

Yoshihisa Asada, Seiji Fujimoto, John Chisholm +16

Ultra-faint galaxies at high- are fundamental elements of the early galaxy assembly, and spectroscopic characterization of this population is essential to understand the earlies…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

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

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

Effects of chemically homogeneous evolution of the first stars on the 21-cm signal and reionization

Boyuan Liu, Daniel Kessler, Thomas Gessey-Jones +6

The first generation of stars, known as Population III (Pop III), played a crucial role in the early Universe through their unique formation environment and metal-free composition.…