RED DOTS JWST BLACK HOLES

Mar 17 2026SCIENCE

Red‑Dot Riddles: What the Webb Telescope Is Seeing

The James Webb Space Telescope has turned the sky into a gallery of tiny, bright red spots that scientists call little red dots, or LRDs. These points appear in nearly every deep‑field image the telescope captures and have puzzled astronomers since Webb began its mission four years ago. Astronome

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