Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons - Nature
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Little red dots as young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons - Nature

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The highest-quality JWST spectra reveal that little red dots are young supermassive black holes shrouded in dense cocoons of ionized gas, where electron scattering, not Doppler motions, broadens their spectral lines.