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Supermassive black holes in 'little red dot' galaxies are 1,000 times larger than they should be, and astronomers don't know why

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered distant, overly massive supermassive black holes in ...
Phys.org

From dead galaxies to mysterious red dots, here's what the James Webb Telescope has found in just 3 years

On this day three years ago, we witnessed the nail-biting launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest and most powerful telescope humans have ever sent into space. It took 30 years to ...
Yahoo

NASA telescope discovers creepy ultra-massive ‘Red Monster’ galaxies in the early universe

A group of international astronomers have discovered three mysterious, ultra-massive galaxies in the early universe. The galaxies – systems of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter – appear in a view from ...
Science Daily

New red galaxies turn out to be already known blue galaxies

Not all discoveries turn out to be actual new discoveries. This was the case for the extremely red objects (EROs) found in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data. Analysis shows that they are very ...

A Tiny Red Dot in Deep Space May Be a New Kind of Cosmic Monster

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...
New Scientist

‘Little red dot’ galaxies are breaking theories of cosmic evolution

The “little red dots” discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) pose a cosmic conundrum. It seems that these compact galaxies are either stuffed impossibly full of stars or have black holes ...
EurekAlert!

Red galaxies provide new insights into the birth of the universe

This image combines data from the JWST's MIRI and NIRcam cameras to create a multicolour view of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The the green, orange, and red hues come from MIRI and reveal the reddest ...
Hartford Courant

Discovery of ‘Red Monsters’ supermassive galaxies challenge long-held notions. What to know

The galaxies were identified by the James Webb Space Telescope, according to a release. The citing challenges long-held notions that supermassive galaxies formed over much longer periods of time. “It ...
Newsweek

Astronomer Proposes Entirely New Category of Galaxy

Despite appearing "dead"—i.e., forming no new stars—some red galaxies may secretly be alive, quietly birthing small stars under our noses. This is the conclusion of astronomy professor Charles ...
Astronomy

Spitzer discovers strange new “species” of ultra-red galaxies

In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space ...
SpaceNews

Distant Galaxies Are In The Red

According to scientists from the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, red is the colour favoured by distant galaxies. But the reason for this is still not clear. Working with astronomers ...