Most distant supermassive black hole? ✔️ Two more extremely distant black holes? ✔️ Eleven extremely distant galaxies? ✔️ New data from #NASAWebb is flooding astronomers with discoveries, including black holes that are less massive: webbtelescope.pub/3CX0Hms

🌌 NASA Webb Telescope detected the most distant active supermassive black hole to date! go.nasa.gov/46C1aZ2

Check out this 3D flythrough of the CEERS data courtesy of the press folks at STScI. JWST CEERS Collaboration NASA Webb Telescope STScI webbtelescope.org/contents/media…

A really well-written article on our recent JWST results in National Geographic

My favorite version of this video...

Hey look, the early universe is teeming with black holes. Nice Nature story summarizing all the recent work on detecting faint quasars with JWST. nature.com/articles/d4158…

This is a really great article that summarizes the frenzy of black holes discoveries that took place this past spring using JWST and why folks are so excited about all these hidden little monsters. quantamagazine.org/jwst-spots-gia…

I did my first REU at the Space Telescope Science Institute 25 years ago. Excited to be back this week to give an invited talk at the First Year of JWST Science conference (with baby in tow).

One of the emerging results from JWST is the surprisingly large number of accreting black holes in the early Universe. Using spectroscopy in the UNCOVER survey Jenny Greene confirms this, showing that about a third of red galaxies at z>5 host an AGN! arxiv.org/abs/2309.05714

CEERS results on the front page of the NY Times.

Snowshoeing in the Alps via moonlight (and with torches)

From Nathalie Korhonen Cuestas: Lurking behind a thick red blanket of gas, supermassive black holes are rapidly growing in very compact galaxies known as Little Red Dots, and they may hold some of the secrets of galaxy evolution. 🔭✨️ astrobites.org/2024/04/30/tem…

Great group down here in Kinsale for our "Massive Black Holes in the First Billion Years" conference. Another exciting day of talks in store for us today. #BlackHolesKinsale

The view over our house last night

I was wondering about the colors of the #aurora. I saw this unattributed image floating around and a post from Sophia Gad-Nasr claiming it has to do with the concentration of oxygen. But that didn't make sense to me. A short thread 1/N [attribution for in image description]

Well, this is pretty dang cool, from Jeopardy! last night, featuring our JWST CEERS Collaboration discovery!

Super excited that our recent paper on Little Red Dots was discussed on All Things Considered. The write-up by Nell Greenfieldboyce is really great. npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-…