New Research Suggests Little Red Dots Are Young Black Holes Enshrouded in Gas

New Research suggests Little Red Dots are young black holes enshrouded in gas

New Delhi: Since the James Webb Space Telescope began operations in December 2024, the deep-field observations have revealed hundreds of small, red points of light peppered among the most distant stars and galaxies. These mysterious ‘Little Red Dots (LRDs)’ appear when the universe was only several hundred million years old, and vanish about a billion years after the Big Bang. Initial observations suggested that they were massive galaxies, consi…

A Dark Matter Origin for Little Red Dots

Researchers examine whether the black holes at the centers of little red dots could have been born in the collapse of dark matter halos.