{"id":241363,"date":"2026-07-22T16:03:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/what-are-the-strange-little-red-dots-seen-in-the-early-universe-scientists-have-come-up-with-an-intriguing-new-theory"},"modified":"2026-07-22T16:03:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T21:03:04","slug":"what-are-the-strange-little-red-dots-seen-in-the-early-universe-scientists-have-come-up-with-an-intriguing-new-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/what-are-the-strange-little-red-dots-seen-in-the-early-universe-scientists-have-come-up-with-an-intriguing-new-theory","title":{"rendered":"What are the strange little red dots seen in the early Universe? Scientists have come up with an intriguing new theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-the-strange-little-red-dots-seen-in-the-early-universe-scientists-have-come-up-with-an-intriguing-new-theory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using a model that places a light black hole in an envelope of dense gas, they get results that match much of what we see in little red dots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using a model that places a light black hole in an envelope of dense gas, they get results that match much of what we see in little red dots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241363","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}