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Measurement of the gas consumption history of a massive quiescent galaxy (Scholtz+26)

  • ‘Death by a thousand cuts’: young galaxy ran out of fuel as black hole choked off supplies (University of Cambridge, 12 January, 2026)
  • 'Death by a thousand cuts': Pablo's galaxy ran out of fuel as black hole choked off supplies (Phys.org, 12 January, 2026)
  • Astronomers discover ancient “dead galaxy” starved by its supermassive black hole (Innovation News Network, 12 January, 2026)
  • 'Death by a thousand cuts': James Webb Space Telescope figures out how black hole murdered Pablo's Galaxy (Space.com, 13 January, 2026)
  • How Black Holes Slowly Starve Galaxies (Universe Today, 14 January, 2026)

    Accelerated quenching and chemical enhancement of massive galaxies in a z∼4 gas-rich halo (Pérez-González+25)

  • Death of a galaxy seen in 3D by JWST (Centre of Astrobiology, 16 July, 2025)
  • ¿Cómo mueren las galaxias? El extraño caso de Jekyll y Hyde (DW, 21 July, 2025)
  • James Webb revela el misterio de la galaxia Jekyll que dejó de crear estrellas (Radio3, 22 July, 2025)
  • Una galaxia muerta en 3Ds (Diario de Leon, 22 July, 2025)
  • Jekyll y Hyde en el cosmos (Cienciases.com, 2025)
  • El misterio de la muerte estelar revelado por el James Webb (El Medio, 22 July, 2025)

    GA-NIFS & EIGER: A merging quasar host at z=7 with an overmassive black hole (Marshall+24)

  • A distant quasar’s black hole is oddly huge for its galaxy (ScienceNews, 1 November, 2025)

    A fast-rotator post-starburst galaxy quenched by supermassive black-hole feedback at z=3 (D'Eugenio+24)

  • Cosmic murder solved! Scientists say giant black hole starved its own galaxy to death (StudyFinds, 6 October, 2024)
  • James Webb Telescope Shows Black Hole Feedback Quenched Star Formation (AZO Quantum, 23 September, 2024)
  • Astronomers detect black hole ‘starving’ its host galaxy to death (University of Cambridge, 12 September, 2024)

    GA-NIFS: Multi-phase outflows in a star-forming galaxy at z ∼ 5.5 (Parlanti+24b)

  • Tracing Cosmic Winds in the Distant Universe with JWST and ALMA (astrobites, 31 July, 2024)

    GA-NIFS: JWST/NIRSpec IFS view of the z~3.5 galaxy GS5001 and its close environment at the core of a large-scale overdensity (Lamperti+24)

  • Caught in the act: Observations of a merging protocluster (astrobites, 27 June, 2024)

    GA-NIFS: JWST discovers an offset AGN 740 million years after the Big Bang (Übler+24)

  • Webb detects most distant black hole merger to date (ESA, 16 May, 2024)
  • Just In: Black Holes Collide in a Galactic Showdown 13 Billion Years Ago (astrobites, 15 January, 2024)

    GA-NIFS: JWST/NIRSpec integral field unit observations of HFLS3 reveal a dense galaxy group at z ∼ 6.3 (Jones+24)

  • Oversized Ancient Galaxy Isn't What Astronomers First Thought (ScienceAlert, 30 December 2023)
  • JWST Reveals Distant "Galaxy" is Six-Way Galactic Crash (Sky & Telescope, 20 December 2023)

    The ultra-dense, interacting environment of a dual AGN at z ∼ 3.3 revealed by JWST/NIRSpec IFS (Perna+23)

  • New Jils on the Block (astrobites, 24 April, 2023)