Forget "little green men" — it is "little red ... dots in the early universe, these JWST findings could challenge what we know about the evolution of galaxies and the supermassive black holes ...

"There's a substantial amount of work being done to try to determine the nature of these little red dots and whether their light is dominated by accreting black holes." Upon their discovery back ...

Forget "little green men" — it is "little red dots" in the infant universe that caught the eye of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The odd red bodies, scientists say, hide stars that models ...

A mysterious class of small, red objects in the early universe might be explained by black holes inside dense ... dubbed little red dots (LRDs). Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

Its colors suggest that the black hole lies behind a ... galaxy cluster to determine that the three red dots had to be multiple images of the same background source, seen when the universe was ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have unveiled a hidden population of supermassive black holes in the ... and the lesser-known "Little Red Dots" recently detected near ...

tiny red dots in some of the oldest corners of the universe, which turned out to be "baby" life stages of supermassive black holes. "These special objects could change the way we think about the ...