Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions — mentioned by sulam

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:36:05 GMT

I thought I read somewhere that many of these little red dots are turning out to be nothing more than bog-standard brown dwarfs in our own galaxy that are confusing the signal. These days we have some pretty powerful agents who can read these things faster than I can, so I went and found the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04004 It turns out that brown dwarfs are actually corrected for, so my remembrance is correct but factored in. I’m posting anyway because 1) it’s interesting and mildly relevant and 2) others might have the same “vague but unclear” recollection I had and appreciate the…

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Lonely Little Red Dots: Challenges to the AGN-nature of little red dots through their clustering and spectral energy distributions — mentioned by sulam