NASA Webb Explores Family Tree of Newly Discovered Distant Objects
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been used to study little red dots, compact distant objects first discovered in 2022. Astronomers are examining whether these little red dots are supermassive black holes known as active galactic nuclei.
Since their discovery by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope in 2022, little red dots (LRDs) have been the subject of great interest to astronomers. Understanding the nature of these extremely distant, compact red sources has been a puzzling scientific endeavor. One popular theory is that little red dots are supermassive black holes known as active […]
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