A view of the early universe captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, including numerous little red dots whose nature is uncertain NASA, ESA, CSA, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin)
A mysterious class of small, red objects in the early universe might be explained by black holes inside dense cocoons of gas, like a star.
Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found hundreds of objects in the early universe that appear extremely red and compact, dubbed little red dots (LRDs).
