JWST May Have Discovered a New Cosmic Object: The Black Hole Star

JWST May Have Discovered a New Cosmic Object: The Black Hole Star

Gigantic black holes existed in a cosmic eyeblink after the Big Bang. That should be impossible.

For years, mysterious little red dots kept appearing in James Webb images of the early universe — astronomers now think one is a “black hole star,” a growing black hole hidden inside a star-like gas cocoon the size of the solar system

A telescope worth ten billion dollars stared into the dawn of time and came back with freckles. Within weeks of the James Webb Space Telescope starting science operations in 2022, astronomers began noticing them: tiny, fiercely red points sitting in almost every deep field. Someone called them little red dots, which was less a name […]

JWST found an object 100 billion times brighter than a star — not a star

For two years, JWST kept photographing compact reddish smears in the early universe that matched nothing in any cosmic taxonomy. MoM-BH*-1 — the first confirmed black hole star — may finally explain them.