Astronomer Rohan Naidu: From Engineering to a Possible Black Hole Star
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The "James Webb" telescope shows mysterious red dots virtually everywhere in space. One of them is surrounded by an extremely dense gas shell. Is it a black hole star?
Astronomers reported a new kind of cosmic object in Nature on 12 August 2026: a “black hole star” roughly the scale of a solar system, whose star-like envelope is powered not by nuclear fusion but by a feeding black hole. The discovery may finally explain the hundreds of mysterious Little Red Dots JWST has been finding throughout the early universe.
On 12 August 2026, astronomers reported something in Nature that sounds almost too theatrical to be useful science: a “black hole star.” It is not a conventional star, and nobody has watched a black hole replace a stellar core. It is a young massive black hole apparently wrapped in such a dense, extended envelope of hydrogen that the whole system develops some of the spectral features of a gigantic star. The object is called MoM-BH*-1. We see it…
A black hole in the early universe appears to be in a huge gas envelope. It has properties that astronomers have not yet known – they call it "Black Hole Star".
Astronomer Rohan Naidu: From Engineering to a Possible Black Hole Star
Hyderabad-born astronomer Rohan Naidu left engineering school at 18 before joining Yale-NUS College in Singapore. His journey eventually led him to study the earliest galaxies and black holes in the universe. At Yale-NUS, Naidu discovered astronomy while researching blazars. He later studied at Harvard, earning a PhD in Astronomy in 2022. His research focused on “Galactic Archaeology” and ancient galaxies absorbed by the Milky Way. Naidu now stu…
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