Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’

The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere.

The short version

• A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system.
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• Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine.

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Why it matters

Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era when vast swaths of hydrogen and helium gas gathered into the chains of galaxies we see today.

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