A dust-free hierarchically nested supermassive-star model for James Webb Space Telescope Little Red Dots

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A dust-free hierarchically nested supermassive-star model for James Webb Space Telescope Little Red Dots

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Pau Amaro Seoane

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Observations by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal a population of high-redshift objects, the little red dots. These sources exhibit optical reddening alongside blue ultraviolet continua, host broad Balmer lines indicative of active black holes, and lack detectable x-ray emission. Their cosmic abundance at early epochs exceeds standard Eddington-limited growth timescales. Prevailing models invoke specific dust geometries to reconcile these traits. We propose a dust-free physical framework. We evaluate the concept that the dust-poor subset of little red dots represents the observational manifestation of hierarchically nested supermassive stars. A primary radiation-dominated envelope traps a nuclear star cluster. Plunging stars drive a magnetic dynamo that inflates the envelope. This produces the red optical continuum. Unobscured infalling stars yield the blue ultraviolet excess. Trapped stellar debris sediments to form a high-density secondary core within this Compton-thick host. This nested topology thermalizes x-rays and powers the broad hydrogen $α$ features. The central seed accretes at the global radiation limit of the host envelope. This kinetic bypass shortens the assembly timescale from hundreds of millions of years to tens of millions of years.

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