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Pieter van Dokkum

2 articles · 10 co-authors · latest: 2026-03-16

Runaway Black Hole Leaves an Interstellar Trail

A runaway supermassive black hole leaves a superheated gas tail visible from Earth. The James Webb Space Telescope clocked its escape velocity at 954 km/s, revealing that such giants can be flung from their galaxies.
arXiv:2512.04166 · 2025-12-03

DF9: The Third Galaxy Without Dark Matter

Three dwarf galaxies in the constellation Cetus lack dark matter. Velocity measurements in DF9 showed: stars crawl like pedestrians, instead of racing as usual. This pace indicates mass from visible stars only. Likely, all three arose when a galaxy collision filtered gas from dark matter, like a kit
arXiv:2603.15860 · 2026-03-16