Little Red Dots Could Be Ancient Globular Clusters, Each Dominated by a Super-Massive Star
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Little Red Dots Could Be Ancient Globular Clusters, Each Dominated by a Super-Massive Star
Little Red Dots are one of the mysteries uncovered by the JWST. Astronomers have been trying to figure out what they are, and have come up with multiple possibilities. New research says they could be ancient Globular Clusters with supermassive stars in their centers.
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A recent study suggests that the so-called Little Red Dots (LRDs), observed by the James Webb Space Telescope, may be globular clusters in formation, each dominated by a supermassive star. The research, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, explores the relationship between these two astronomical phenomena. The relationship between Little Red Dots and globular clusters Little Red Dots are compact and bright objects found in large quant…
For decades, globular clusters—those spheres filled with hundreds of thousands of old stars orbiting galaxies—have been a puzzle. No one knew how they formed. But James Webb has just offered an unexpected clue: the mysterious ‘Little Red Dots’, red dots of the early universe that appear and fade in just a billion years, could be the first image of those newborn clusters. The red dots that puzzled astronomers first detected in 2022, the Little Re…
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