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A gas-enshrouded and gas-reddened black hole at cosmic dawn

nature.com · 17h · first report

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Nature, Published online: 12 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10846-4 Observations of an unusual cosmic-dawn source illuminate how early supermassive black holes may have grown rapidly in a gas-enshrouded state; such enshrouded black holes may lie at the heart of the 'little red dots'.

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  2. Mirage or miracle? JWST finds earliest known 'black hole star' at cosmic dawn

    phys.org · 2h

  3. JWST images illuminate ‘black hole stars’ at cosmic dawn

    scientificamerican.com · 2h

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