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Little Red Dots are Direct-collapse Black Hole–forming Galaxies

  • Authors: Daniel J. Whalen, Muhammad A. Latif, Konstantinos Topalakis, Fergus Cullen, Devesh Nandal, Sadegh Khochfar

Daniel J. Whalen et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 2.

The DCBH and its accretion disk. Left: densities, which reach 1010 cm−3 in the vicinity of the BH shown as the black dot. Right: temperatures and velocity vectors in the disk, in which the H II region is trapped at the center on scales below those of the image.

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