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An ultra-faint, chemically primitive galaxy forming in the reionization era - Nature

LAP1-B—an ultra-faint and tiny galaxy that formed in the reionization era and is strongly magnified by gravitational lensing—is chemically primitive and hosts very few stars in an otherwise dominant dark matter halo.

<li>Nakajima, K. & Maiolino, R. Diagnostics for PopIII galaxies and direct collapse black holes in the early Universe. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc.513, 51345147 (2022).
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An ultra-faint, chemically primitive galaxy forming in the reionization era - Nature

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