It's one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos: What are these little red dots?

[LymphocyteLover]

Fascinating!

"Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs in James Webb data might be.


When the James Webb space telescope began collecting data, researchers noticed strange red dots in the early universe. They share similarities with black holes, but astronomers are still struggling to understand what exactly they are."



https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/james-webb-little-red-dots-black-hole-stars?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

[mercuryblues]

1. Ask a cat. They have been studying this forever.

[2naSalit]

2. Have to enter an email address to read article at link.

[LymphocyteLover]

3. that's a problem?

they didn't do a verification email so maybe just put in a fake email?

[-misanthroptimist]

4. Ahh, my old friend black holes

The intellectual spackle of astrophysics.