{"id":221824,"date":"2025-09-13T03:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/mysterious-red-dots-in-early-universe-may-be-black-hole-star-atmospheres"},"modified":"2025-09-13T03:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T08:36:24","slug":"mysterious-red-dots-in-early-universe-may-be-black-hole-star-atmospheres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/mysterious-red-dots-in-early-universe-may-be-black-hole-star-atmospheres","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious \u2018red dots\u2019 in early universe may be \u2019black hole star\u2018 atmospheres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mysterious-red-dots-in-early-universe-may-be-black-hole-star-atmospheres.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny red objects spotted by NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of galaxies in the universe\u2014and may represent an entirely new class of celestial object: a black hole swallowing massive amounts of matter and spitting out light.<\/p>\n<p>Using the first datasets released by the telescope in 2022, an international team of scientists including Penn State researchers discovered mysterious \u201clittle red dots.\u201d The researchers suggested the objects may be galaxies that were as mature as our current Milky Way, which is roughly 13.6 billion years old, just 500 to 700 million years after the Big Bang.<\/p>\n<p>Informally <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-02-discovery-massive-early-galaxies-defies.html\">dubbed \u201cuniverse breakers\u201d<\/a> by the team, the objects were originally thought to be galaxies far older than anyone expected in the infant universe\u2014calling into question what scientists previously understood about galaxy formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny red objects spotted by NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are offering scientists new insights into the origins of galaxies in the universe\u2014and may represent an entirely new class of celestial object: a black hole swallowing massive amounts of matter and spitting out light. Using the first datasets released by the telescope in 2022, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}