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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
"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...
Scientists Once Thought These ‘Little Red Dots’ Broke Cosmology. Now, They’re Not So Sure.
Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...
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"We Are About To Learn Something New": Mystery Of "Little Red Dot" Galaxies Grows Weirder
A new preprint study has taken a closer look at the "universe-breaking" Little Red Dot galaxies discovered in the early ...
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James Webb Space Telescope sees little red dots feeding black holes: 'This is how you solve a universe-breaking problem'
"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...
Astronomers solve mystery of "little red dots" spotted by James Webb Space Telescope
A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...
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Webb finds strange objects called "little red dots" in the early universe that no one can explain
These objects, initially dubbed “little red dots” (LRDs), appeared small but were abundant across the cosmos. However, their ...
One little red dot: How glass art helped this Moscow artist heal after a traumatic brain injury
To Gutsch, the little red dots she fused to her glass art represented brain hemorrhages, also known as brain bleeds. She had ...
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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, among the strangest ...
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 Find Multiple 'Little Red Dots' in Early Universe From Telescope Images, Hinted at Black Holes
Scientists Find Multiple 'Little Red Dots' in Early Universe From Telescope Images, Hinted at Black Holes Within six months ...
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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 ...