Overmassive No More: The Case for Little Red Dots Hosting Black Hole Seeds as Massive as Single Supermassive Stars

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@article{2026arXiv260909274S,
  author = {{Sun}, Wendy Q. and {Naidu}, Rohan P. and {Liu}, Hanpu and {de Graaff}, Anna and {Greene}, Jenny E. and {Matthee}, Jorryt and {Ashall}, Chris and {Chisholm}, John and {Eilers}, Anna-Christina and {Fei}, Qinyue and {Heintz}, Kasper E. and {Hiramatsu}, Daichi and {Kokorev}, Vasily and {Leja}, Joel and {Liu}, Zhaoran and {Natarajan}, Priyamvada and {Oesch}, Pascal A. and {Simcoe}, Robert A. and {Torralba}, Alberto and {Weibel}, Andrea},
  title = {{Overmassive No More: The Case for Little Red Dots Hosting Black Hole Seeds as Massive as Single Supermassive Stars}},
  journal = {arXiv e-prints},
  keywords = {Astrophysics of Galaxies, Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  eid = {arXiv:2609.09274},
  pages = {arXiv:2609.09274},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  eprint = {2609.09274},
  primaryclass = {astro-ph.GA},
  adsurl = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2026arXiv260909274S},
  adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System},
  dimensions = {true},
  month_numeric = {9}
}

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