Tag Archive for 'Little red dot'

Little red dots may reside in small galaxies with total masses equivalent to around one billion times that of the Sun. Image credit: Zhang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41550-026-02945-z.

Mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ Could Be Tiny Galaxies with Giant Black Holes at Their Hearts

Aug 25, 2026 by News Staff

The mysterious objects spotted in the early Universe may not be isolated points of light after all. A new analysis of images of 217 ‘little red dots’...

This Webb image shows the MoM-BH*-1 object. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Naidu et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-026-10846-4.

Astronomers Find Black Hole Star in Early Universe

Aug 12, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Roughly 660 million years after the Big Bang, a strange bright red spot has been hiding in plain sight in one of the deepest fields ever imaged by the...

This Webb image shows the little red dot GLIMPSE-17775, which is located behind the galaxy cluster Abell S1063. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Vasily Kokorev, UT Austin / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Webb Delivers Strongest-Ever Case for ‘Black Hole Stars’ Lurking in Early Universe

Jun 15, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

For several years, astronomers have been puzzling over a peculiar population of objects discovered by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope —...

This Webb/NIRCam image shows the little red dot Abell2744-QSO1, magnified and triply imaged by galaxy cluster Abell 2744. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Lukas Furtak, Ben-Gurion University / Alyssa Pagan, STScI.

Webb Spots Supermassive Black Hole Older Than Its Home Galaxy

May 28, 2026 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found an enormous black hole in the early Universe that appears to predate its own host...

The optical and infrared image from Hubble show the region around the X-ray dot, while the Chandra X-ray image shows the close up. Image credit: NASA / CXC / Max Plank Inst / Hviding et al. / ESA / STScI / HST / CXC / SAO / N. Wolk.

Newly-Discovered ‘X-ray Dot’ Object May Reveal What Mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’ Really Are

Apr 29, 2026 by News Staff

An unusual object discovered by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may represent a missing link between hidden ‘black hole stars’ and fully exposed...

Gaztañaga proposes a new dark matter mechanism in which relic black holes originate from a pre-Big-Bounce collapse phase.

Black Holes from Before Big Bang Could Still Exist Today as ‘Cosmic Fossils’

Apr 20, 2026 by News Staff

New research by Professor Enrique Gaztañaga from the University of Portsmouth and the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona suggests some black holes...

Little red dots are young supermassive black holes in dense ionized cocoons. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / Webb / Rusakov et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09900-4.

Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Are Young Supermassive Black Holes, Astrophysicists Say

Jan 15, 2026 by News Staff

Astrophysicists at the University of Copenhagen show that the enigmatic ‘little red dots’ — red sources scattered across images of the early...

An artist’s impression of CAPERS-LRD-z9. Image credit: Erik Zumalt, University of Texas at Austin.

Astronomers Discover Farthest Black Hole Yet

Sep 22, 2025 by News Staff

The newly-discovered supermassive black hole sits in the center of a ‘little red dot’ galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9 and is seen just 500 million years...