A Black Hole Star at Cosmic Noon: Extreme Balmer break, photospheric continuum, and broad absorption by thick winds in a Little Red Dot at z=1.7

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Main Authors:	Torralba, Alberto, Matthee, Jorryt, Weibel, Andrea, Naidu, Rohan P., Ma, Yilun, Cloonan, Aidan P., Desai, Aayush, de Graaff, Anna, Greene, Jenny E., Jespersen, Christian Kragh, Kramarenko, Ivan G., Mascia, Sara, Oesch, Pascal A., Sun, Wendy Q., Williams, Christina C.
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Astrophysics of Galaxies
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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