Balls of gas with a black hole at their centre could glow like a star. Imagae courtesy of Shutterstock / Nazarii_Neshcherenskyi
Joel Kontinen
Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space
Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded in an
enormous ball of glowing gas.
Could black hole stars really exist in the early universe. According to the big bang view of the universe, the early universe was thought to be inhabited with star like balls of gas but with red very light galaxies?
It seems that the millions of years scenario does not correspond to real life.
The early
universe appears to be littered with enormous star-like balls of gas powered by
a black hole at their core, a finding that has taken astronomers by surprise
and might solve one of the biggest mysteries thrown up by the discoveries
of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
When JWST
first started looking back to the universe’s first billion years,
astronomers found a group of what looked like extremely
compact, red and very bright galaxies that are unlike any we can see in our
local universe. The most popular explanations for these so-called little red
dots (LRDs) proposed they were either supermassive black holes with dust
swirling around them, or galaxies very densely packed full of stars – but
neither explanation fully made sense of the light that JWST was detecting.
Source:
Alex Wilkins 2025
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