2026.06.08
A Stellar Dynamical Mass Measurement of a Supermassive Black Hole in the Early Universe
Introduction: On June 4, 2026, the journal Science published the paper "A stellar dynamical mass measurement of an inactive black hole at redshift 2," with Meng Gu, an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at Tsinghua University, as the 2nd author. Using James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) near-infrared integral field spectroscopy, together with the strong lensing magnification of a ...