Are mysterious 'Little Red Dots' discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope actually nurseries for direct-collapse black holes?

An illustration shows a direct collapse black hole forming at the heart of a Little Red Dot.

Little Red Dots, mysterious objects discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), could be nurseries for massive black holes that didn't form from collapsing stars, but instead emerged directly from vast gas clouds.

If this is the case, then it could solve not only the puzzle of the nature of Little Red Dots, but also another mystery uncovered by the JWST since it began operations in 2022. That is the discovery of a large population of supermassive black holes as early as 500 million years after the Big Bang.