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most citedLittle Red Dots: Rapidly Growing Black Holes Reddened by Extended Dusty Flows

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21 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

A tidal disruption event in a quasar at redshift 7.19

S. Fujimoto, Q. Fei, G. B. Brammer +41

We report a long-lived nuclear transient in GNz7q, a red quasar at powered by a black hole and hosted by a compact, dusty starburst galaxy. Th…

astro-ph.GA2026

A dense, metal-rich absorber driven by a heavily dust-obscured galaxy: The direct evidence of CGM enrichment at

Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Gabriel Brammer +23

We report the serendipitous discovery of a dense, metal-enriched circumgalactic medium (CGM) absorber at z=7.03, together with its host galaxy, identified along the sightline towar…

astro-ph.HE2026

Detection of a parsec-scale, compact, and fading ejecta from an accreting massive black hole

Chao Li, Ning Chang, Jun Yang +2

Dwarf galaxies, characterized by their low luminosities and masses, are excellent candidates for searches for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), particularly when they show str…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

The Lumina Project: The Demographics of Active Galactic Nuclei from Quasars to Little Red Dots at

Xuejian Shen, Oliver Zier, Aaron Smith +16

High-redshift active galactic nuclei (AGN) serve as powerful probes of early black-hole growth, galaxy formation, and the evolving intergalactic medium (IGM). In this work, we use…

astro-ph.GA2026

Holmberg IX: A Unique, Infant but Inactive Galaxy as Revealed via a Multiwavelength Approach

Ye-Wei Mao, Luis C. Ho, Alexei V. Moiseev +2

In this Letter, we report a novel discovery of unique characteristics for the tidal dwarf galaxy (candidate) Holmberg IX via a multiwavelength investigation. New observations are t…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 2 cited

The X-ray weakness of Little Red Dots and JWST-selected AGN: comparison with local AGN in different accretion regimes

A. Tortosa, C. Ricci, P. Du +5

We investigate the origin of the observed X-ray weakness in high z LRDs and other JWST-selected broad line AGN by comparing their X-ray and optical properties with those of a diver…

astro-ph.GA2026

Direct pathway to the Early Supermassive Black Holes: A Red Super-Eddington Quasar in a Massive Starburst Host at

Qinyue Fei, Seiji Fujimoto, Gabriel Brammer +24

We present a panchromatic optical-mm characterization of GNz7q, a recently identified X-ray weak, rapidly growing red quasar embedded within a dusty starburst galaxy at ,…

astro-ph.GA2025

A Critical Evaluation of the Physical Nature of the Little Red Dots

Kohei Inayoshi, Luis C. Ho

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are a newly identified class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) uncovered by JWST deep surveys. Their enigmatic properties challenge the canonical AGN paradigm…

astro-ph.GA2025

Discovery of two little red dots transitioning into quasars

Shuqi Fu, Zijian Zhang, Danyang Jiang +9

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered a new population of compact objects that show a unique V-shaped spectral energy distribution (SED) in the UV and optical wavelength…

astro-ph.GA2025

COSMOS-3D: Dense Circumnuclear Gas across Black Hole Growth Phases at z ~ 3

Zi-Jian Li, Siwei Zou, Jianwei Lyu +25

We report the discovery of two broad-line X-ray AGNs (cid_414 and cid_947) at z ~ 3 identified in the JWST Cycle 3 COSMOS-3D program using NIRCam F444W grism spectroscopy. Both exh…

astro-ph.GA2025

Extended Components of Little Red Dots in the Rest-Frame Optical

Yiyang Zhang, Xuheng Ding, Lilan Yang +26

Recent JWST observations have revealed a population of red, compact, high-redshift objects called Little Red Dots (LRDs), whose host components have remained largely unconstrained,…

astro-ph.GA2025

On the Variability Features of Active Galactic Nuclei in Little Red Dots

Shuying Zhou, Mouyuan Sun, Zijian Zhang +2

The high-redshift () compact sources with ``V-shaped" spectral energy distributions (SEDs), known as Little Red Dots (LRDs), are discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope a…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

JWST Insights into Narrow-line Little Red Dots

Zijian Zhang, Linhua Jiang, Weiyang Liu +2

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a population of red and compact objects with a unique V-shape SED at z >= 4 known as Little Red Dots (LRDs). Most of the LRDs with ex…

astro-ph.GA2025

The Physical Nature of the Off-centered Extended Emission Associated with the Little Red Dots

Chang-Hao Chen, Luis C. Ho, Ruancun Li +1

A significant fraction of little red dots (LRDs) exhibit nearby extended emission of unknown origin. If physically associated with the LRD, this component may trace stellar emissio…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 15 cited

Dust Budget Crisis in Little Red Dots

Kejian Chen, Zhengrong Li, Kohei Inayoshi +1

Little red dots (LRDs), a population of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) recently identified by JWST, are characterized by their compact morphology and red optical continuum emission,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Composite spectrum of Little Red Dot from a standard inner disk and an unstable outer disk

Chenxuan Zhang, Qingwen Wu, Xiao Fan +6

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a new class of high-redshift, very red, compact broad-line sources, termed as "little red dots" (LRDs). The physical mechanism drivin…

astro-ph.HE2025

The Emergence of Little Red Dots from Binary Massive Black Holes

Kohei Inayoshi, Jinyi Shangguan, Xian Chen +2

Little red dots (LRDs) are a newly identified class of broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGN) with a distinctive v-shape spectrum characterized by red optical and blue UV continuu…

astro-ph.GA2024

Discovery of Local Analogs to JWST's Little Red Dots

Ruqiu Lin, Zhen-Ya Zheng, Chunyan Jiang +12

Recently, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a new class of high redshift (high-, ) compact galaxies which are red in the rest-frame optical and blue in the…

astro-ph.GA2024

Analysis of Multi-epoch JWST Images of Little Red Dots: Tentative Detection of Variability in a Minority of Sources

Zijian Zhang, Linhua Jiang, Weiyang Liu +1

James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has revealed a population of red and compact sources at known as ``Little Red Dots'' (LRDs) that are likely active galactic nuclei (…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 61 cited

Little Red Dots: Rapidly Growing Black Holes Reddened by Extended Dusty Flows

Zhengrong Li, Kohei Inayoshi, Kejian Chen +2

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revolutionized extragalactic research, particularly with the discovery of little red dots (LRD), which we propose are dust-r…

astro-ph2003★ 37 cited

XMM-Newton Observations of the Ultraluminous Nuclear X-ray Source in M33

L. Foschini, J. Rodriguez, Y. Fuchs +5

We present observations with XMM-Newton of M33 X-8, the ultraluminous X-ray source (L_{0.5-10 keV} ~ 2x10^39 erg/s) closest to the centre of the galaxy. The best-fit model is simil…