A population of red candidate massive galaxies~ 600 Myr after the Big Bang

I Labbé, P van Dokkum, E Nelson, R Bezanson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Galaxies with stellar masses as high as roughly 1011 solar masses have been identified,–
out to redshifts z of roughly 6, around 1 billion years after the Big Bang. It has been difficult to …

Identification and properties of intense star-forming galaxies at redshifts z > 10

BE Robertson, S Tacchella, BD Johnson, K Hainline… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Surveys with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have discovered
candidate galaxies in the first 400 Myr of cosmic time. Preliminary indications have …

Thermal emission from the Earth-sized exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 b using JWST

TP Greene, TJ Bell, E Ducrot, A Dyrek, PO Lagage… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The TRAPPIST-1 system is remarkable for its seven planets that are similar in size, mass,
density and stellar heating to the rocky planets Venus, Earth and Mars in the Solar System …

JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of z = 7–9 star-forming galaxies with CEERS: new insight into bright Lyα emitters in ionized bubbles

M Tang, DP Stark, Z Chen, C Mason… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We describe new JWST/NIRSpec observations of galaxies at z≳ 7 taken from the CEERS
survey. Previous observations of this area have revealed associations of Lyα emitters at …

A sun-like star orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report discovery of a bright, nearby () Sun-like star orbiting a dark object. We identified
the system as a black hole candidate via its astrometric orbital solution from the Gaia …

A red giant orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, Y Cendes… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report spectroscopic and photometric follow-up of a dormant black hole (BH) candidate
from Gaia DR3. The system, which we call Gaia BH2, contains a∼ 1 M⊙ red giant and a …

No thick carbon dioxide atmosphere on the rocky exoplanet TRAPPIST-1 c

S Zieba, L Kreidberg, E Ducrot, M Gillon, C Morley… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Seven rocky planets orbit the nearby dwarf star TRAPPIST-1, providing a unique opportunity
to search for atmospheres on small planets outside the Solar System. Thanks to the recent …

Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri

M Häberle, N Neumayer, A Seth, A Bellini, M Libralato… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Black holes have been found over a wide range of masses, from stellar remnants with
masses of 5–150 solar masses (M☉), to those found at the centres of galaxies with M> 105 …

A dynamical measure of the black hole mass in a quasar 11 billion years ago

R Abuter, F Allouche, A Amorim, C Bailet, A Berdeu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Tight relationships exist in the local Universe between the central stellar properties of
galaxies and the mass of their supermassive black hole (SMBH),–. These suggest that …

EPOCHS VI: the size and shape evolution of galaxies since z ∼ 8 with JWST Observations

K Ormerod, CJ Conselice, NJ Adams… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present the results of a size and structural analysis of 1395 galaxies at 0.5≤ z≲ 8 with
stellar masses log (M*/M⊙)> 9.5 within the James Webb Space Telescope Public CEERS …