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Has the James Web Space Telescope Discovered a New 'Black Hole Star'?

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The James Webb Space Telescope has been picking up little red dots in almost every image, writes Quanta magazine. And now two teams of astronomers propose they're looking at a new astronomical object: a black hole star. It shines with the light of billions of suns — and hides a black hole in its core. But Quanta adds that "not everyone agrees with this bold interpretation." [Two Webb telescope surveys of distant objects included little red dots]…

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Thanks to the James Webb telescope, strange red dots could be identified in the distant universe. "Krone-science expert Dr. Christian Mähr explains what this means.

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A dastrophysicist team has just produced complete cosmological simulations (radiation + hydrodynamics) that auto-coherently reproduce the birth and initial growth of supermassive black holes in a proto-mass environment of galaxies. And they also show the emergence of observable signatures of these supermassive black holes that are totally consistent with the mysterious LRD (Little Red Dots). This is the first demonstration uniting the Little Red…

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