How Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Nearly Broke Cosmology—and Helped Fix It
Mysterious little red dots threatened to overhaul modern cosmology—but new research may have solved the celestial conundrum.
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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'
"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...
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These Strange Red Dots In The Sky Might Be Able To Tell Us About The Earliest Black Holes In The Universe
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected several small red objects in the sky. Scientists referred to them […] ...
James Webb Space Telescope's 'little red dots' come into focus
A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...
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Astronomers solve mystery of "little red dots" spotted by James Webb Space Telescope
In early 2023, JWST found a series of little red dots (LRDs) in photographs from the ancient universe, less than a billion years after the Big Bang. In theory, the 341 red dots should not exist ...
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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why
An image shows six of the "little red dot" galaxies seen by JWST in the early universe. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Dale Kocevski (Colby College)) "The little red dots also show some ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's 'little red dots' come into focus
Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, one of the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...