Connecting the Dots: UV-Bright Companions of Little Red Dots as Lyman-Werner Sources Enabling Direct Collapse Black Hole Formation

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Main Authors:	Baggen, Josephine F. W., Scoggins, Matthew T., van Dokkum, Pieter, Haiman, Zoltán, Torralba, Alberto, Matthee, Jorryt
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Astrophysics of Galaxies
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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