The James Webb Space Telescope just solved a ‘universe-breaking problem’ it created for astronomers more than two years ago.
In December 2022, the NASA telescope revealed ‘impossible’ black holes that had never been seen before, which scientists called ‘little red dots’ (LRDs).
Astronomers found that a large fraction of the LRDs, most of which existed during the first 1.5 billion years after the big bang, showed signs of containing growing supermassive black holes.
The faint, ancient red dots baffled researchers as, in theory, it shouldn’t have been possible for these giant galaxies to form stars and solar systems given their relatively young age.
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