Little Red Dot - Host Galaxy = Black Hole Star: A Gas-Enshrouded Heart at the Center of Every Little Red Dot

BibTeX Entry

@article{2026arXiv260120929S,
  author = {{Sun}, Wendy Q. and {Naidu}, Rohan P. and {Matthee}, Jorryt and {de Graaff}, Anna and {Chisholm}, John and {Greene}, Jenny E. and {Oesch}, Pascal A. and {Torralba}, Alberto and {Hviding}, Raphael E. and {Brammer}, Gabriel and {Simcoe}, Robert A. and {Bose}, Sownak and {Bouwens}, Rychard and {Dayal}, Pratika and {Eilers}, Anna-Christina and {Fei}, Qinyue and {Furtak}, Lukas J. and {Gottumukkala}, Rashmi and {Goulding}, Andy and {Heintz}, Kasper E. and {Hirschmann}, Michaela and {Kokorev}, Vasily and {Leja}, Joel and {Liu}, Zhaoran and {Natarajan}, Priyamvada and {Santarelli}, Andrew D. and {Setton}, David J. and {Smith}, Aaron and {Tacchella}, Sandro and {Volonteri}, Marta and {Walter}, Fabian and {Weibel}, Andrea and {Williams}, Christina C.},
  title = {{Little Red Dot $-$ Host Galaxy $=$ Black Hole Star: A Gas-Enshrouded Heart at the Center of Every Little Red Dot}},
  journal = {arXiv e-prints},
  keywords = {Astrophysics of Galaxies, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena},
  year = {2026},
  month = jan,
  eid = {arXiv:2601.20929},
  pages = {arXiv:2601.20929},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2601.20929},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2601.20929},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.GA},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026arXiv260120929S},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  dimensions = {true},
  lrdkeys = {agn-dominated, emission lines, host galaxy, obscuration, spectroscopy},
  month_numeric = {1}
}
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