Mysterious 'little red dots' discovered by James Webb telescope may be the first stars in the universe on the verge of collapse

A series of red bubble looking spheres over a dark, starry background with four white cutout squares in the front enlarging four of the bubbles to show glowing balls of red light in each of the bubbles. .

Astronomers may have found evidence that some of the mysterious "little red dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are not black holes, as previously proposed, but rather gigantic stars from the beginning of the universe.

The team made the discovery by developing a simplified model of supermassive ancient stars — the potential "parents" of the first supermassive black holes in the universe.