Mystery of the "Little Red Dots" May Finally Be Solved

Mystery of the "Little Red Dots" May Finally Be Solved

Deep in the darkness, tiny red specks of light have been driving astronomers to distraction. These mysterious "little red dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope shouldn't exist, they’re impossibly compact yet blazingly bright, defying our understanding of how galaxies form. Now, Harvard researchers believe they've solved this billion year old puzzle with a theory involving the universe's rarest structures; dark matter halos.

Astronomers uncover rare cosmic recipe behind mysterious “little red dots”

Astronomers may have found a new explanation for one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) most puzzling discoveries—tiny, distant galaxies known as “little red dots.” A new study from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian suggests these unusual galaxies may have formed inside rare dark matter halos that spin exceptionally slowly. The […] The post Astronomers uncover rare cosmic recipe behind mysterious “little red dots” appea…