The most overlooked fact about JWST’s Little Red Dots (opens in new tab)

When JWST opened its eyes on the Universe, it glimpsed the Universe at farther distances, fainter magnitudes, and higher resolutions than ever before. One of the more profound surprises that emerged were a bright class of ultra-young, distant objects known as Little Red Dots. If all of the light from these objects were coming from their stars, they’d have to be ultra-massive at such early times: a colossal difficulty for our consensus cosmology to explain. The history of astronomy is all abou...