Astrophysicists propose Webb's little red dots are early supermassive black holes

A new paper offers an explanation for the faint distant objects first observed in the very early universe

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Astrophysicists have proposed that the 'little red dots' observed by the James Webb Space Telescope are rapidly forming supermassive black holes accreting material. ^[2] The objects were first detected in regions of the universe dated to just hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. ^[3] The proposal appears in a paper published in Nature, led by Max Planck Institute researcher Sunmyon Chon. In separate work published in Nature Astronomy, astronomers catalogued 84 X-ray sources across six galaxies including Andromeda and M101 using Chandra observatory data. The nature of all 84 sources remains unknown. ^[1]

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A study published in Nature Astronomy identified 84 X-ray sources in six galaxies, including Andromeda and M101, using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, and their nature is unknown. · Jurnalul
A study published in the journal Nature by Max Planck Institute astrophysicist Sunmyon Chon and colleagues proposes that 'little red dots' observed by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope are rapidly-forming supermassive black holes that emit light while accreting material. · Futurism
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope first observed 'little red dots' in a region of the universe believed to date to just hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang. · Futurism

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