Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified an extraordinarily bright red object from the early universe that could represent a previously unknown type of astrophysical source: a “black hole star”.
At the centre of the research is Rohan Naidu, a Hyderabad-born astronomer and lead author of the study. Naidu is a NASA Hubble Fellow and Pappalardo Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.
