A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...
NASA’s Webb telescope uncovers mysterious "little red dots," pointing to the existence and growth of supermassive black holes ...
Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs).
LRDs, or Little Red Dots, were discovered in the first months after the James Webb Space telescope was turned on. However, ...
Found less than a billion years after the Big Bang, these massive objects are upending astronomers’ timeline for how early galaxies formed.
An illustration shows the JWST in space next to its observations of some of the earliest galaxies ever seen, the so-called "little red dots.". | Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Dale Kocevski (Colby ...
Of all the mysteries that the massive James Webb Space Telescope has seen so far in the early universe, among the strangest are objects that astronomers now call "little red dots." Like the ...