Massive Galaxies That Died Young: Astronomers Find a Cause
New research identifies black hole mergers as the cause of massive galaxies that formed stars rapidly then abruptly stopped, solving a long-standing cosmic mystery.
New research identifies black hole mergers as the cause of massive galaxies that formed stars rapidly then abruptly stopped, solving a long-standing cosmic mystery.
Astronomers directly measured the mass of a supermassive black hole in a high-redshift ‘little red dot’ galaxy, using ALMA to weigh a 300 million solar mass monster just 800 million years after the Big Bang.