Feeding Hidden Monsters: a Super-Eddington accreting Black Hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang

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Recent James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations have revealed a surprisingly abundant population of faint, dusty active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at z~4-7.

• Together with the presence of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at z>6, this raises questions about the formation and growth histories of early black holes.
• Current theories for the formation of seed black holes from the death of the first stars (i.e.
• light seeds) and/or the direct collapse of primordial gas clouds (i.e.