More Numerous and Bluer: Companions of the Brightest Little Red Dots Differ from Control Galaxies at >3 sigma, Hinting at Synchronized Black Hole Seed Formation
astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO, astro-ph.HE
Submitted: 2026-08-24
Updated: 2026-09-21
Terminology
Sources
- Double Dots: Compact Pairs Mark Little Red Dots and High-Redshift Broad-line AGNs
- A Rapid Evolution in the Observed Mbh/M* Relation at z > 3 Revealed via Spectro-photometric SED-Modeling
- The $M_{\rm BH}-M_{*}$ Relationship at $3<z<7$: Big Black Holes in Little Red Dots
- Emission line formation in scattering dominated media: implications for LRDs
- A "Black Hole Star" Reveals the Remarkable Gas-Enshrouded Hearts of the Little Red Dots
- The Little Red Dots Are Direct Collapse Black Holes
Related papers
- Apparent Stability in Self-Gravitating Turbulence and the Evolution of Molecular Clouds
- Two sets of potential-density basis pairs for the study of radial perturbations in collisionless spherical stellar systems
- Constraining reionization-era Ly alpha escape with JELS-MUSE: a highly complete H alpha-selected sample at z about6.1
- Deriving volume density profiles of filaments from observed surface densities
- Little Red Dots and Supermassive Black Hole Seed Formation in Ultralight Dark Matter Halos
- MEGATRON: how the first stars can create an iron metallicity plateau in the smallest dwarf galaxies