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Little red dots (LRDs) are an abundant population of compact high-redshift sources with red rest-frame optical continua, discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Their red colors and power sources have been attributed either to…

To investigate the radio properties of the recently found high-redshift population, we collected a sample of $919$ little red dots (LRDs) from the literature. By cross-matching their coordinates with the radio catalogues based on the first-…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-25 K. Perger , J. Fogasy , S. Frey , K. É. Gabányi

The James Webb Space telescope has discovered an abundant population of broad line emitters, typical signposts for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Many of these sources have red colors and a compact appearance that has led to naming them…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-05 M. Volonteri , M. Trebitsch , J. E. Greene , Y. Dubois , C. -A. Dong-Paez , M. Habouzit , A. Lupi , Y. Ma , R. S. Beckmann , P. Dayal , R. Schneider

Little Red Dots, discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, are hypothesized to be active galactic nuclei containing a supermassive black hole, possibly surrounded by a dense stellar cluster, large amounts of gas, and likely by a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-27 Konstantinos Kritos , Joseph Silk

Recent studies at high redshift have revealed an enigmatic class of Little Red Dots (LRDs) with extreme Balmer breaks, stronger than in any stellar atmosphere. However, it is unclear whether such objects exist at lower redshift, especially…

Several local ($z\lesssim 0.2$) metal-poor dwarf AGNs have remarkably similar properties to those of high-redshift Little Red Dots (LRDs), and are recently proposed to be local analogs of LRDs. We use long-term photometric and spectroscopic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-21 Colin J. Burke , Zachary Stone , Yue Shen , Yan-Fei Jiang

Recent photometric surveys with JWST have revealed a significant population of mysterious objects with red colours, compact morphologies, frequent signs of active galactic nucleus (AGN) activity, and negligible X-ray emission. These 'Little…

We recently identified a substantial population of galaxies at z>2 with red rest-frame optical colors. These distant red galaxies (DRGs) are efficiently selected by the simple observed color criterion J-K>2.3. In this paper we present NIR…

The nature of "Little Red Dots" and their relation to other forms of accreting supermassive black holes remain an open question. Here we report the discovery of a Little Red Dot at $z=7.3$. It is attenuated by moderate amounts of dust, $A_V…

The James Webb Space Telescope recently uncovered a population of massive black holes (BHs) in the first billion years after the Big Bang. Among these high-redshift BH candidates, observations have identified a class of active galactic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-21 Elia Cenci , Melanie Habouzit

Little Red Dots (LRDs) challenge conventional models of active galactic nuclei. At rest-optical-to-near-infrared (IR) wavelengths, these compact extragalactic objects show blackbody-like continuum emission and spectral features reminiscent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-04 Hanpu Liu , Yan-Fei Jiang , Eliot Quataert , Jenny E. Greene , Yilun Ma , Xiaojing Lin

The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an abundant population of potential active galactic nuclei (AGN) at high redshift ($z\gtrsim4$) known as little red dots (LRDs), which are likely hosted in relatively low-mass galaxies. However,…

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)…

We investigate the host galaxy properties of eight little red dots (LRDs) selected from the JWST UNCOVER survey, applying a new technique ({\tt\string GalfitS}) to simultaneously fit the morphology and spectral energy distribution using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-14 Chang-Hao Chen , Luis C. Ho , Ruancun Li , Ming-Yang Zhuang

We investigate the possibility that the recently identified population of high-redshift, obscured quasars - known as "Little Red Dots" (LRDs) - originates from early black hole seed formation driven by ultra-strongly self-interacting dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 M. Grant Roberts , Lila Braff , Aarna Garg , Stefano Profumo , Tesla Jeltema

New populations of red active galactic nuclei (known as ``Little Red Dots'') discovered by JWST exhibit remarkable spectral energy distributions. Leveraging X-ray through far-infrared observations of two of the most luminous known Little…

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