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Webb Telescope Reveals Mysterious Little Red Dots
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Astronomers using the Webb space telescope have identified a new class of objects called little red dots, found throughout the early universe. A University of Texas team analyzed one gravitationally lensed dot, GLIMPSE-17775, and published evidence in The Astrophysical Journal that it is a black hole star, a rapidly growing black hole cocooned in gas. The findings suggest black holes grew faster than expected between 500 million and 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang.
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