Mystery of strange ‘little red dots’ discovered in space may have finally been solved

The little red dot that would come to be known as GLIMPSE-17775 was spotted by the James Webb Telescope. (Picture: NASA, ESA, CSA, V. Kokorev/Cover Images)

The mystery of the universe’s ‘little red dots’ is becoming a little clearer thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. 

Soon after Webb began scientific operations in 2021, the telescope discovered a previously unknown type of object in the early Universe: abundant red sources that appeared around 600 million years after the Big Bang.

Scientists have since explored several explanations for these little red dots, including the idea that they are powered by rapidly growing black holes hidden inside dense clouds of gas.

A team of researchers led by Vasily Kokorev at the University of Texas at Read Entire Article