The information astronomers have collected so far from the Little Red Dots’ spectra and emission lines has led to two diverging models explaining their nature. These objects are either extremely ...

His proposal is that Little Red Dots are the first one or two accretion episodes of a newly formed black hole. In other words ...

The information astronomers have collected so far from the Little Red Dots’ spectra and emission lines has led to two diverging models explaining their nature. These objects are either extremely ...

Evidence so far points to two possible explanations: Little red dots are likely either galaxies that host surprisingly large or luminous supermassive black holes, or they are compact galaxies with ...

“There’s always two or more potential ways to explain the confounding properties of little red dots,” said Kocevski. “It’s a continuous exchange between models and observations, finding ...

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There are two leading hypotheses on the Little Red Dots. One proposes that they're incredibly dense galaxies packed with up to 100 billion stars. That's as many as the Milky Way, despite being ...