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A black hole in a near pristine galaxy 700 Myr after the big bang / A direct black-hole mass measurement in a #LittleRedDot at high redshift: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/548/1/staf2109/8607050?login=false / https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10579-4 -> Webb reveals black hole that formed before its galaxy: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2609/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-reveals-black-hole-that-formed-before-its-galaxy/ - the first direct mass measurement from the early Universe weighs in on the debate over the origins of supermassive black holes.

Little Red Dots and Their Progenitors from Direct Collapse Black Holes: #LittleRedDots - New Clues from the Early Universe: https://tacc.utexas.edu/news/latest-news/2026/04/16/little-red-dots-new-clues-from-the-early-universe/ - TACC supercomputer simulations shed light on the mysterious origins of these enigmatic cosmic objects.

An Ultra-Faint, Chemically Primitive #Galaxy Forming in the Reionization Era: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11846 -> Astronomers Find Most Chemically Primitive Galaxy in Early Universe / Clues to the Mysterious Origins of Ultra-Faint Dwarfs: https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2026/20260514-dos.html / https://www.kanazawa-u.ac.jp/en/miraichi/183006/ / https://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/17894/