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Source: a spectroscopic massive quiescent galaxy at z=7.29

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Space · arxiv.org · today

Against your view

You’re right that some headline JWST masses were revised. But a different, spectroscopically confirmed galaxy at z=7.29 had already built an inferred ~17 billion solar masses in stars and stopped forming them. How did it form and quench so quickly?

“The NIRSpec/PRISM spectrum reveals one of the strongest Balmer breaks observed thus far at z>6”
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