The discovery of the "little red dots" with the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a host of surprises about this mysterious class of high-redshift objects. Their physical nature remains hotly contested. I will argue that little red dots trace the initial phase of supermassive black holes that predates the formation of their host galaxies. As such, they offer a uniquely valuable...
We investigate the morphology from UV to optical of eight little red dots (LRDs) selected from the JWST UNCOVER survey, applying a new technique (GalfitS) to simultaneously fit the morphology and spectra energy distribution using multiband NIRCam images covering ~ 1-4 ${\mu m}$. For the majority of LRDs (7/8) in our sample, the morphology in all bands are dominated by an unresolved point...
