Early Supermassive Black Holes and Little Red Dots Require Free-Fall Growth
astro-ph.GA, astro-ph.CO
Submitted: 2026-08-31
Updated: 2026-08-31
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- Significant Evidence of an AGN Contribution in GHZ2 at z = 12.34
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- The Deepest GLIMPSE of a Dense Gas Cocoon Enshrouding a Little Red Dot
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- How I Wonder What You Are -- JWST's Little Red Dots do not TWINKLE
- Little Red Dots as Obscured Little Blue Dots: A Super-Eddington Unification Model
- A black hole in a near-pristine galaxy 700 million years after the Big Bang
- A "Black Hole Star" Reveals the Remarkable Gas-Enshrouded Hearts of the Little Red Dots
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