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fromwww.scientificamerican.com
2 weeks ago

Mysterious Little Red Dots' in Space Are Likely Cloaked Black Holes

Giant, rapidly growing black holes enshrouded in dense ionized gas likely explain the early-universe “little red dots” seen by JWST.
fromHarvard Gazette
4 months ago

Watching history being made - Harvard Gazette

For more than two years, astronomers have been puzzled by a mysterious discovery from the ancient universe - hundreds of objects known as "little red dots" so far away the light had to travel billions of years to become visible to scientists. First detected by the James Webb Space Telescope, these unusually compact vestiges from the cosmic dawn have sparked intense debate: Are they densely packed galaxies? Or do they contain massive black holes?
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