On Jan. 14, at the 245th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in National Harbor, Maryland, astronomers revisited some recent mysteries. Dale Kocevski of Colby College in Maine, spoke about the “little red dots” (LRDs) found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). These are the same as the “universe-breaking” galaxies first reported roughly two years ago, so called because they are larger than scientists can explain at so early a point in cosmic time — less than a billion years after the Big Bang.
Scientists simply don’t understand how so many stars and so much material could accumulate in so little time. When the news first broke, there were six of these objects. Now, JWST has revealed 341 of them. Kocevski’s update to the LRD investigation has been accepted…
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Astronomy (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2025