For several years, astronomers have been puzzling over a peculiar population of objects discovered by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope — faint, red objects from the early Universe dubbed ‘little red dots.’ Using Webb’s NIRCam and NIRSpec instruments, University of Texas at Austin astronomer Vasily Kokorev and his colleagues have now obtained the deepest spectrum ever taken of a little red dot. The data supports the interpretation...
