JWST’s little red dots are black holes feeding at 10 times the allowed rate

JWST’s little red dots are black holes feeding at 10 times the allowed rate

Since 2023, astronomers have been puzzled by a class of objects James Webb Space Telescope keeps finding scattered across the early universe: small, strikingly red, too bright for their apparent size. They called them “little red dots,” and the name stuck partly because nobody could explain what they were. A new theoretical model proposes an answer, and it is more dramatic than anything previously suggested. According to a preprint by astrophysi…