Webb’s mysterious little red dots may be hiding entire galaxies

Webb’s mysterious little red dots may be hiding entire galaxies

Astronomers may finally have a clue to what happens to the mysterious “little red dots” that crowded the early universe. By studying a spiral galaxy nicknamed the “Saguaro,” researchers found a compact, bright red center that closely resembles these distant objects—but with something Webb usually can’t see around them: a full galaxy. When the team simulated what the Saguaro would look like much farther away, its spiral structure essentially vani…

Webb May Have Found the Family Tree of the Little Red Dots

When the James Webb Space Telescope began finding tiny, intensely red sources in the early universe, astronomers were not looking at ordinary galaxies. The objects were so compact that, in some images, they looked almost like red points of light. They became known as “little red dots,” and their sudden disappearance at later cosmic times […] The post Webb May Have Found the Family Tree of the Little Red Dots appeared first on Curiosmos.