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Robert Lea

Black holes buried in mysterious 'little red dot' galaxies could blast cosmic ghosts at Earth

An illustration of a black hole at the heart of a dust cloud blasting out neutrinos.

Mysterious "little red dots" discovered in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope could harbor buried black holes that fire high-energy cosmic "ghost particles" through the cosmos.

Neutrinos are referred to as ghost particles because as chargeless and near-massless particles, hundreds of trillions of them stream through your body every second at nearly the speed of light. Plus, the source of high-energy neutrinos frequently detected on Earth is something of a mystery.

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