A Black Hole Star at Cosmic Noon: Extreme Balmer Break, Photospheric Continuum, and Broad Absorption by Thick Winds in a Little Red Dot at z = 1.7

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@article{2026ApJ..1005L..37T,
  author = {{Torralba}, Alberto and {Matthee}, Jorryt and {Weibel}, Andrea and {Naidu}, Rohan P. and {Ma}, Yilun and {Cloonan}, Aidan P. and {Desai}, Aayush and {de Graaff}, Anna and {Greene}, Jenny E. and {Jespersen}, Christian Kragh and {Kramarenko}, Ivan G. and {Mascia}, Sara and {Oesch}, Pascal A. and {Sun}, Wendy Q. and {Williams}, Christina C.},
  title = {{A Black Hole Star at Cosmic Noon: Extreme Balmer Break, Photospheric Continuum, and Broad Absorption by Thick Winds in a Little Red Dot at z = 1.7}},
  journal = {\apjl},
  keywords = {Black holes, Active galactic nuclei, High-redshift galaxies, 162, 16, 734},
  year = {2026},
  month = jul,
  volume = {1005},
  number = {2},
  eid = {L37},
  pages = {L37},
  doi = {10.3847/2041-8213/ae7bfd},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026ApJ..1005L..37T},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  dimensions = {true},
  lrdkeys = {absorption features, case study, jwst, sed, spectroscopy},
  eprint = {2603.28335},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.GA},
  month_numeric = {7}
}

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