Meet the Little Red Dots (opens in new tab)

Little Red Dots... These LRDs are high-redshifted (generally at z ≥ 6), compact (≲ 100 pc) and ancient objects (wait….let’s use the word “galaxies”, would make stuff easier). These red thingies can be considered to have existed in the first billion years of our universe, just so you know, our universe is about 13.8 billion years old. So, by that logic, these galaxies are quite old. The reason for this high-redshift is purely the expansion of our universe. Our universe did not explode into exi...