Fog Passes Off Tiny Black Holes as Giants ⚡ экспресс
Original: "Little Red Dots as Intermediate Mass, Super-Eddington Engines: Insights from Type IIn Supernovae and The 1837-1856 Great Eruption of $$\eta$$ Carinae"
A gas cocoon around a black hole fools telescopes into mistaking small objects for supermassive giants.
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The red dots caught by Webb may not be supermassive black holes, but 'tiny tots' wrapped in a dense gas cocoon. This fog inflates their sizes and tricks telescopes. Perhaps this is how future monster quasars are born, hidden for now in their own cradle.
🎯 In 1843, the star Eta Carinae became the second brightest in the sky, even though it was 7,500 light-years away. Its light was amplified by a gas shell — just like the 'baby' black holes we see in the red dots.