{"OA_place":"repository","year":"2025","project":[{"name":"Young galaxies as tracers and agents of cosmic reionization","_id":"bd9b2118-d553-11ed-ba76-db24564edfea","grant_number":"101076224"}],"acknowledgement":"I thank Claudia Di Cesare, Edoardo Iani, Gauri Kotiwale and Wendy Sun for proofreading, Daichi Kashino, Gauri Kotiwale, Sara Mascia, Benjamín Navarette and Joris Witstok for their assistance in preparing some of the Figures, and Richard Ellis and Stephen Blundell for constructive comments. Funded by the European Union (ERC, AGENTS, 101076224).","author":[{"id":"7439a258-f3c0-11ec-9501-9df22fe06720","first_name":"Jorryt J","orcid":"0000-0003-2871-127X","full_name":"Matthee, Jorryt J","last_name":"Matthee"}],"month":"12","volume":66,"date_updated":"2026-01-05T12:43:28Z","publication":"Contemporary Physics","corr_author":"1","external_id":{"arxiv":["2511.04843"]},"user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","day":"04","OA_type":"green","main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.04843"}],"status":"public","article_processing_charge":"No","citation":{"short":"J.J. Matthee, Contemporary Physics 66 (2025) 116–151.","ama":"Matthee JJ. JWST provides a new view of cosmic dawn: Latest developments in studies of early galaxies. <i>Contemporary Physics</i>. 2025;66(1-4):116-151. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370\">10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370</a>","apa":"Matthee, J. J. (2025). JWST provides a new view of cosmic dawn: Latest developments in studies of early galaxies. <i>Contemporary Physics</i>. Taylor &#38; Francis. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370\">https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370</a>","chicago":"Matthee, Jorryt J. “JWST Provides a New View of Cosmic Dawn: Latest Developments in Studies of Early Galaxies.” <i>Contemporary Physics</i>. Taylor &#38; Francis, 2025. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370\">https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370</a>.","ista":"Matthee JJ. 2025. JWST provides a new view of cosmic dawn: Latest developments in studies of early galaxies. Contemporary Physics. 66(1–4), 116–151.","ieee":"J. J. Matthee, “JWST provides a new view of cosmic dawn: Latest developments in studies of early galaxies,” <i>Contemporary Physics</i>, vol. 66, no. 1–4. Taylor &#38; Francis, pp. 116–151, 2025.","mla":"Matthee, Jorryt J. “JWST Provides a New View of Cosmic Dawn: Latest Developments in Studies of Early Galaxies.” <i>Contemporary Physics</i>, vol. 66, no. 1–4, Taylor &#38; Francis, 2025, pp. 116–51, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370\">10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370</a>."},"department":[{"_id":"JoMa"}],"oa_version":"Preprint","page":"116-151","issue":"1-4","date_published":"2025-12-04T00:00:00Z","type":"journal_article","language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"_id":"20864","title":"JWST provides a new view of cosmic dawn: Latest developments in studies of early galaxies","intvolume":"        66","quality_controlled":"1","publication_identifier":{"issn":["0010-7514","1366-5812"]},"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"Studies of the distant Universe are providing key insights into our understanding of the formation of galaxies. The advent of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has significantly enhanced our observational capabilities, leading to an expanded redshift frontier, providing unprecedented detail in the characterisation of early galaxies and enabling the discovery of new populations of accreting black holes. This review aims to provide an introduction to the basic processes and components that shape the observed spectra of galaxies, with a focus on their relevance to techniques with which high-redshift galaxies are selected. The review further introduces specific topics that have attracted significant attention in recent literature, including the discovery of highly efficient galaxy formation in the early Universe, the relation between galaxies and the process of reionization, new insights into the formation of the first stars and the enrichment of interstellar gas with heavy elements, and breakthroughs in our understanding of the origins of supermassive black holes."}],"oa":1,"publisher":"Taylor & Francis","arxiv":1,"doi":"10.1080/00107514.2025.2586370","date_created":"2025-12-29T12:05:25Z","article_type":"original","scopus_import":"1","publication_status":"published"}