James Webb Telescope's Spots 'Little Red Dots' That Are Our Universe's Weirdest Puzzle
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The James Webb Space Telescope has brought us yet another discovery, by uncovering the existence of multiple tiny, red, bright objects at the dawn of the universe that have baffled scientists.
Using the NIRSpec instrument onboard the Webb Telescope, a team of researchers identified and confirmed 3 mysterious objects in the early universe, when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age.
In order to answer what these red objects were, the team decided to study the spectral measurements, or the intensity of different wavelengths of light being emitted by them.
And boy were they in for a shock, because their analysis revealed signatures of ancient stars, hundreds of millions of years old. Far older than one would expect to find in a young universe.
That was not all. Before the team could digest this discovery, they detected signatures of huge supermassive black holes in the same objects. Black holes that are 100 to 1,000 times more massive than the supermassive black hole in our own Milky Way.
According to our current models of galaxy growth and black hole formation, this shouldn’t be possible.
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