Little Red Dots As Super-Eddington Fountain Flows

arXiv:2609.20920 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-09-17 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-17

Updated: 2026-09-17

Comments: 25 pages, 14 figures. Comments welcome!

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Little Red Dots — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Little Red Dots (LRDs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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