James Webb’s Little Red Dots
| When |
Mar 05, 2025
from 07:00 PM to 08:00 PM |
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| Where | Monnik Beer Co 1036 E Burnett Ave, Louisville, KY 40217 |
| Contact Name | lutz.haberzettl@louisville.edu |
| Contact Phone | 5028521986 |
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Speaker: Benne Holwerda, University of Louisville
Abstract: One of the first discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope were the bright and compact objects that appear to be at the highest redshifts. They are so numerous and bright that if they would be early galaxies made out of stars as we know them, they would be too massive and too early in the Universe's timeline.
This population of objects has been studied intensively ever since with a consensus emerging that these host the earliest active galactic nuclei, the sites of the earliest supermassive black holes.