New research suggests that "little red dots" seen in the early universe may actually be a new class of cosmic object: black hole stars. If this theory is correct, it could explain how black holes managed to grow to supermassive sizes before the universe was even 1 billion years old.
Little red dots are one of the most curious celestial objects viewed thus far by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Astronomers theorize that they are early galaxies that existed earlier than 700 million years after the Big Bang, that are unlike anything seen in the local and "modern" 13.8 billion-year-old universe.
