Wendy Q. Sun

Astronomy research assistant at the University of Hawaiʻi

Hi! I'm Wendy. I'm an astronomy research assistant at the Institute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaiʻi, where I study little red dots (LRDs) and am fortunate to be mentored by Prof. Rohan Naidu.

I graduated from MIT in May 2026 with a double major in Physics and AI. Before turning to astronomy, my research was in machine learning — including AI for mathematics and image generation.

Please find my CV here.

Wendy Sun

Publications

Overmassive No More: The Case for Little Red Dots Hosting Black Hole Seeds as Massive as Single Supermassive Stars

Wendy Q. Sun, Rohan P. Naidu, Hanpu Liu, Anna de Graaff, Jenny E. Greene, Jorryt Matthee, and 14 more authors

Submitted to Open Journal of Astrophysics, September 2026

Little Red Dot $-$ Host Galaxy $=$ Black Hole Star: A Gas-Enshrouded Heart at the Center of Every Little Red Dot

Wendy Q. Sun, Rohan P. Naidu, Jorryt Matthee, Anna de Graaff, and 29 more authors

Open Journal of Astrophysics, May 2026
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