JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ May Be ‘Black Hole Stars’

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

‘Little Red Dots’ Spied by JWST May Be Baby Black Holes in Disguise

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...
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'Death by a thousand cuts': James Webb Space Telescope figures out how black hole murdered Pablo's galaxy

Astronomers have discovered that a young galaxy was gradually starved by its central supermassive black hole, in what was ...

Dark Stars May Solve Three of JWST’s Biggest Cosmic Mysteries

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including ...
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James Webb Space Telescope's mysterious 'little red dots' may be black holes in disguise

With the help of NASA's $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers first discovered the mysterious specks of ...
New Scientist

Distant 'little red dot' galaxies may contain baby black holes

Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope has found hundreds of distant and apparently bright galaxies dubbed ...
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What are 'dark' stars? Scientists think they could explain 3 big mysteries in the universe

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Ancient Type II supernova discovered from universe's first billion years

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new Type II supernova. The ...
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James Webb telescope confirms a supermassive black hole running away from its host galaxy at 2 million mph, researchers say

JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...

NASA launches new mission to get the most out of the James Webb Space Telescope

Among other things, the James Webb Space Telescope is designed to get us closer to finding habitable worlds around faraway ...
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Strange, 'starved' galaxy died 'a death of 1,000 cuts' in the ancient universe, JWST reveals

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Webb telescope zooms in on a black hole's messy feeding zone

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...