JWST's Little Red Dots are compact (under 100 pc) red sources at z of 4 to 9, hundreds identified, with abundance orders of magnitude above bright quasars. Spectra point to young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons, frequently overmassive against any plausible host, X-ray quiet, and demographically transient within a billion years. ΛCDM has neither the seeds for their masses, the halos for their abundance, nor a life cycle that produces their rise and decline.
Black holes in the model are rare late outcomes: stellar seeds in rare massive halos growing by accretion. That assumption sets the abundance by halo statistics and the masses by Eddington time, and the Little Red Dots violate both at once, while their cocooned, compact, transient character matches no stage of the model's quasar evolution.
SCT replaces the hot-dense-center with a superluminal collision cascade in which head-on geometries directly collapse thermalized debris into compact-object seeds of 10⁷ to 10⁹ solar masses (P46), distributed not by rare-halo statistics but by the collision mass function, with number density set by the deposition geometry (P56). The Little Red Dots are what this seeding epoch should look like when observed: newly formed massive black holes still wrapped in the dense thermalized gas they were born from, compact because the seed and its cocoon are a single deposition feature, overmassive because the host galaxy assembles afterward from the grazing-channel debris (P31), and abundant because collisions were not rare.
The life cycle completes the fit. A seeding-epoch population is necessarily transient: the cocoons disperse, the hosts assemble, and the same objects reappear later as ordinary quasars on their way to the local black-hole-to-stellar relation; the rise and decline within a billion years is the cascade's seeding window closing, not a demographic mystery. The electron-scattering-broadened lines and X-ray weakness sit naturally with birth cocoons of dense ionized gas rather than mature accretion structures (P22, P23, P25).
This is the same born-big channel behind the luminous z above 7 quasars and the high-z clustering excess; the Little Red Dots are its direct portrait. There is no need to invoke supermassive dark stars or per-object exotica for a population-scale phenomenon.
The registered seeding kill applies: a complete early black hole census explicable by Eddington-limited growth from stellar seeds removes the born-big channel the LRDs are read as. Population-specific tests sharpen it: if LRD demographics resolve into objects with black hole masses tracking host stellar mass on the local relation, or their clustering matches rare-peak halo statistics rather than the flatter collision mass function, the seeding-epoch portrait fails.