Since NASA's James Webb Space Telescope first revealed little red dots (LRDs) in 2022, astronomers have been trying to determine exactly what these strange objects are. The compact, extremely distant red sources appear throughout the early universe, but their true nature has remained difficult to explain.
One leading idea is that little red dots are supermassive black holes known as active galactic nuclei. However, they do not behave quite like the active gala...

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