‘Little red dot’ gets its colour from gas — not dust

2026-08-12

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D. R. G. Schleicher

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Rodrigo Herrera-Camus

DOI：10.1038/d41586-026-02290-1

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Dust can tint the cosmos red, but a compact astronomical object is coloured by turbulent gas around a black hole.