Dark Bondi Accretion Aided by Baryons and the Origin of JWST Little Red Dots

arXiv:2506.17641 · astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph · Submitted 2025-06-21 · Read on arXiv

astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, hep-ph

Submitted: 2025-06-21

Updated: 2026-09-24

Code: https://github.com/ymzhong/gravothermal

Terminology

• Core — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Little Red Dots — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Velocity Dispersion — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Gravitational Lensing — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Little Red Dots (LRDs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• AIDA-TNG — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• A luminous quasar at a redshift of z = 7.085
• An ultra-luminous quasar with a twelve-billion-solar-mass black hole at redshift 6.30
• An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at redshift 7.5
• Discovery of the First Low-Luminosity Quasar at z > 7
• The Discovery of A Luminous Broad Absorption Line Quasar at A Redshift of 7.02
• A Luminous Quasar at Redshift 7.642
• Evidence for heavy seed origin of early supermassive black holes from a z~10 X-ray quasar
• Seeding Supermassive Black Holes with Self-Interacting Dark Matter: A Unified Scenario with Baryons
• Gravothermal Collapse of Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos and the Origin of Massive Black Holes
• Self-Interacting Dark Matter Halos and the Gravothermal Catastrophe
• Supermassive Black Holes from Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter
• Early formation of supermassive black holes via dark matter self-interactions
• SMBH Seeds from Dissipative Dark Matter
• Gravothermal collapse of Self-Interacting Dark Matter halos as the Origin of Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Milky Way satellites
• Hidden Little Monsters: Spectroscopic Identification of Low-Mass, Broad-Line AGN at $z>5$ with CEERS
• A JWST/NIRSpec First Census of Broad-Line AGNs at z=4-7: Detection of 10 Faint AGNs with M_BH~10^6-10^8 M_sun and Their Host Galaxy Properties
• Little Red Dots: an abundant population of faint AGN at z~5 revealed by the EIGER and FRESCO JWST surveys
• JWST CEERS & JADES Active Galaxies at z = 4-7 Violate the Local $M_\bullet-M_\star$ Relation at $>3\sigma$: Implications for Low-Mass Black Holes and Seeding Models
• Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies
• First Detection of an Over-Massive Black Hole Galaxy UHZ1: Evidence for Heavy Black Hole Seed Formation from Direct Collapse

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