Observational Tests of Active Galactic Nuclei Feedback: An Overview of Approaches and Interpretation

CM Harrison, C Ramos Almeida - Galaxies, 2024‏ - mdpi.com
Growing supermassive black holes (Active Galactic Nuclei; AGN) release energy with the
potential to alter their host galaxies and larger-scale environment; a process named “AGN …

Experimental studies of black holes: status and future prospects

R Genzel, F Eisenhauer, S Gillessen - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2024‏ - Springer
More than a century ago, Albert Einstein presented his general theory of gravitation (GR) to
the Prussian Academy of Sciences. One of the predictions of the theory is that not only …

Spectroscopic confirmation of two luminous galaxies at a redshift of 14

S Carniani, K Hainline, F D'Eugenio, DJ Eisenstein… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
The first observations of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have revolutionized our
understanding of the Universe by identifying galaxies at redshift z≈ 13 (refs.,–). In addition …

Evidence for heavy-seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z ≈ 10 X-ray quasar

Á Bogdán, AD Goulding, P Natarajan, OE Kovács… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Observations of quasars reveal that many supermassive black holes (BHs) were in place
less than 700 Myr after the Big Bang. However, the origin of the first BHs remains a mystery …

The complete CEERS early universe galaxy sample: a surprisingly slow evolution of the space density of bright galaxies at z∼ 8.5–14.5

SL Finkelstein, GCK Leung, MB Bagley… - The Astrophysical …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
We present a sample of 88 candidate z∼ 8.5–14.5 galaxies selected from the completed
NIRCam imaging from the Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science survey. These data …

A census of photometrically selected little red dots at 4< z< 9 in JWST blank fields

V Kokorev, KI Caputi, JE Greene, P Dayal… - The Astrophysical …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Observations with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have uncovered
numerous faint active galactic nuclei (AGN) at z∼ 5 and beyond. These objects are key to …

What is the nature of Little Red Dots and what is not

PG Pérez-González, G Barro, GH Rieke… - The Astrophysical …, 2024‏ - iopscience.iop.org
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JADES-The diverse population of infant black holes at 4< z< 11: Merging, tiny, poor, but mighty

R Maiolino, J Scholtz, E Curtis-Lake, S Carniani… - Astronomy & …, 2024‏ - aanda.org
Spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescope has opened the possibility of
identifying moderate-luminosity active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the early Universe, at and …

JADES: Insights into the low-mass end of the mass–metallicity–SFR relation at 3< z< 10 from deep JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy

M Curti, R Maiolino, E Curtis-Lake, J Chevallard… - Astronomy & …, 2024‏ - aanda.org
We analysed the gas-phase metallicity properties of a sample of low-stellar-mass (log
M⋆/M⊙≲ 9) galaxies at 3< z< 10 observed with JWST/NIRSpec as part of the JADES …

A high black-hole-to-host mass ratio in a lensed AGN in the early Universe

LJ Furtak, I Labbé, A Zitrin, JE Greene, P Dayal… - Nature, 2024‏ - nature.com
Early JWST observations have uncovered a population of red sources that might represent a
previously overlooked phase of supermassive black hole growth,–. One of the most …