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Forbidden black holes and ancient stars hide in these ‘tiny red dots’ (image)

Forget “little green men”  — it is “little red dots” in the infant universe that caught the eye of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). 

The odd red bodies, scientists say, hide stars that models suggest are “too old” to have lived during early cosmic times and black holes that measure up to thousands of times larger than the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. Scientists believe these objects must have been born in a way unique to the early universe — by a method that seems to have ceased in the cosmos after around 1 billion years of its existence.


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