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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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 ...
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 ...
Webb’s Stunning Discovery: Could These Mysterious “Little Red Dots” Be the Universe’s Earliest Black Holes?
Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.
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Scientists Studying Webb's 'Little Red Dots' Find New Population of Black Holes
Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).
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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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One little red dot: How glass art helped this Moscow artist heal after a traumatic brain injury
On a corner of each of Becker J. Gutsch’s hundreds of glass artworks is one little red dot. In most of Gutsch’s art, the little red dots are on the bottom right corner. If not, they are on ...
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On The Red Dot: Icons That Made Us
From catchy jingles to memorable taglines, television advertisements over Singapore’s 60 years have shaped our national ...
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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 ...