For the past few years, astronomers have grappled with a cosmic enigma first revealed by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope ...

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

Ancient galaxies colloquially known as "little red dots" have proven a mystery ever since astronomers discovered them three ...

If dark stars existed, they would have been capable of forming in the universe before ordinary stars could have formed. When ...

James Webb has spotted mysterious little red dots in the early universe that may actually be hidden black holes, challenging ...

The mystery in question revolves around the objects known as little red dots. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

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James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest little red dots are early supermassive black holes, providing insights into cosmic evolution within the first billion years of the universe.

For years, some of the strangest objects in the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep images were tiny crimson specks that defied ...

New research explores how dark stars, powered by dark matter, could account for puzzling observations from the early universe ...

A series of mysterious "little red dots" first emerged in telescope images of the universe as it looked 13 billion years ago.

Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has found hundreds of distant and apparently bright galaxies dubbed ...