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Red, hot, and very metal poor: extreme properties of a massive accreting black hole in the first 500 Myr
Roberta Tripodi, Nicholas Martis, Vladan Markov +29
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently discovered a new population of objects at high redshift referred to as `Little Red Dots' (LRDs). Their nature currently remains e…
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The Origin of Supermassive Black Holes from Pop III.1 Seeds
Jonathan C. Tan, Jasbir Singh, Vieri Cammelli +4
The origin of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is a key open question for contemporary astrophysics and cosmology. Here we review the features of a cosmological model of SMBH forma…
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Glimmers in the Cosmic Dawn: A Census of the Youngest Supermassive Black Holes by Photometric Variability
Matthew J. Hayes, Jonathan C. Tan, Richard S. Ellis +10
We report first results from a deep near infrared campaign with the Hubble Space Telescope to obtain late-epoch images of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field (HUDF), 10-15 years after the…