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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 and have stimulated ideas on early massive black hole (BH)…

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Recent observations by the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered a population of compact, red object ($z\sim 4\text{--}7$) known as little red dots (LRDs). The presence of broad Balmer emission lines indicates active galactic nuclei…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-03 Daisaburo Kido , Kunihito Ioka , Kenta Hotokezaka , Kohei Inayoshi , Christopher M. Irwin

Recent observations have revealed a unique class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), termed little red dots (LRDs). These objects are hypothesized to be powered by massive black holes rapidly accreting in dense gaseous environments.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-22 Shinsuke Takasao , Kohei Inayoshi

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected massive black holes (BHs) with masses of $\sim 10^{6-8}~M_\odot$ within the first billion years of the universe. One of the remarkable findings is the identification of "Little Red Dots" (LRDs), a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-17 Kohei Inayoshi

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled numerous massive black holes (BHs) in faint, broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The discovery highlights the presence of dust-reddened AGN populations, referred to as "little red…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-13 Kohei Inayoshi , Kohei Ichikawa

The enigmatic Little Red Dots (LRDs) discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) exhibit properties challenging their interpretation as common galaxies or Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Understanding their nature is key to placing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 Diego Herrero-Carrión , Daniele Spinoso , David Izquierdo-Villalba , Tong Su , Silvia Bonoli , Pablo Renard

As an unprecedented large population in the early universe, the JWST-discovered little red dots (LRDs) have garnered much attention for formation of massive black holes and galaxies, but their nature remains a mystery. The LRDs appearing as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Jian-Min Wang , Yi-Lin Wang , Yong-Jie Chen , Jun-Rong Liu , Yu-Yang Songsheng , Cheng Cheng , Yan-Rong Li , Pu Du , Hao Zhang , Yu Zhao

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-reddened broad-line active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-06 Zhengrong Li , Kohei Inayoshi , Kejian Chen , Kohei Ichikawa , Luis C. Ho

Little Red Dots (LRDs), newly identified compact and dusty galaxies with an unexpectedly high number density observed by JWST, have an unusual "V-shaped" rest-frame UV to near-infrared spectral energy distribution (SED). A group of…

The discovery of Little Red Dots (LRDs) -- a population of compact, high-redshift, dust-reddened galaxies -- is one of the most surprising results from JWST. However, the nature of LRDs is still debated: does the near-infrared emission…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-14 Tonima Tasnim Ananna , Ákos Bogdán , Orsolya E. Kovács , Priyamvada Natarajan , Ryan C. Hickox

JWST observations have revealed a population of high-redshift "little red dots" (LRDs) that challenge conventional AGN models. We report the discovery of three local LRDs at $z = 0.1$-$0.2$, initially selected from the SDSS database, with…

The discovery by JWST of a substantial population of compact "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) presents a major puzzle: their observed spectra defy standard astrophysical interpretations. Here, we show that LRD spectra are naturally reproduced by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-22 Fabio Pacucci , Andrea Ferrara , Dale D. Kocevski

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has uncovered an abundant population of compact, extremely red, and X-ray weak objects at $z\gtrsim4$, knows as ``Little Red Dots" (LRDs). These objects exhibit spectral energy distributions that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-29 Hai-Long Huang , Jun-Qian Jiang , Jibin He , Yu-Tong Wang , Yun-Song Piao

We test whether ``little red dots'' (LRDs) are the dust-reddened, high-inclination counterparts of bluer compact broad-line active galactic nuclei, here referred to as ``little blue dots'' (LBDs), by modeling their relative number densities…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-07 Piero Madau , Roberto Maiolino

The existence of massive, compact galaxies (Little Red Dots, LRDs) at $z \sim 2$ challenges early structure formation models, suggesting rapid stellar and black hole (BH) assembly. While LRDs are efficient environments for BH growth, many…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-01 M. Liempi , D. R. G. Schleicher , M. A. Latif , R. Schneider , F. Flammini Dotti , A. Escala , M. C. Vergara

We leverage the overmassive black holes ($\rm M_{BH}/M_{\ast} \approx0.1$) present in a realization of the BRAHMA cosmological hydrodynamic simulation suite to investigate their role in the emission of the unique ``little red dot'' (LRD)…

JWST is revolutionizing our view of the early Universe by pushing the boundaries of detectable galaxies and black holes in redshift (upward) and mass (downward). The Little Red Dots (LRDs), detected by several surveys at $z > 4$, present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Emmanuel Durodola , Fabio Pacucci , Ryan C. Hickox
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