Deep in the cosmos, about a billion light-years away, a monster with a gargantuan appetite has woken up. For roughly 100 ...
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A nearby galaxy is launching an enormous stream of super-heated gas, driven by a precessing jet from its central black hole., ...
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The mystery in question revolves around the objects known as little red dots. The rest of this article is behind a paywall.
James Webb Space Telescope observations suggest little red dots are early supermassive black holes, providing insights into cosmic evolution within the first billion years of the universe.
New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of years. This unexpected shift suggests the structure around supermassive black ...
Astronomers studying JWST’s “little red dots” suggest these early-universe objects may not be galaxies at all.