Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’

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astronomy astrophysics black holes cosmology galaxies James Webb Space Telescope physics telescopes All topics Astronomers built the James Webb Space Telescope to pick up faint light from the first billion years after the Big Bang, a chaotic era when vast swaths of hydrogen and helium gas gathered into the chains of galaxies we see today. Even in the telescope’s first images , astronomers could see a whole zoo of mysterious smears of light.