James Webb’s “Little Red Dots” May Be Feeding Black Holes Faster Than Expected
Astronomers are rethinking one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s most puzzling discoveries: compact, crimson objects nicknamed “Little Red Dots” that may be powered by rapidly growing black holes rather than ordinary young galaxies. The emerging interpretation could reshape understanding of how the earliest massive black holes assembled so quickly after the Big Bang, with implications for galaxy formation and the physics of the early universe.
