A mysterious class of small, red objects in the early universe might be explained by black holes inside dense cocoons of gas, like a star. Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Like the nickname suggests, these celestial objects appear to be compact ... to collect hundreds of examples of little red dots. Sponsor Message Their study shows that these cosmic oddballs ...

Soon after it came online in 2022, Webb observations revealed a population of tiny red objects dubbed little red dots (LRDs). A new study has compiled and analyzed the largest-ever sample of LRDs ...