{"id":242607,"date":"2026-08-13T01:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:04:09","slug":"astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object \u2014 a black hole \u2018star\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you heard of the inexplicable little red dots which were found in images from the early universe?<\/p>\n<p>This article may explain them \u2014 _____________<\/p>\n<p>The object was lurking in the constellation of Cetus, the Whale, billions of light years from Earth. It is thought to have formed 660m years after the big bang, astronomers\u2019 leading theory as to how the universe began.<\/p>\n<p>Measurements of the exotic body found that while it resembles an immense star, it releases 100bn times more energy than any known star can produce. The energy output is far closer to that observed from black holes than stars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have found a new type of astrophysical object, a black hole star,\u201d said Dr Rohan Naidu at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>\n<p>It \u201cshines with the energy typically associated with black holes, but at the same time bears signatures classically associated with stars\u201d, he added.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/astronomers-discover-a-new-kind-of-cosmic-object-a-black-hole-star\">Continue reading \u201cAstronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object \u2014 a black hole \u2018star\u2019\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of the inexplicable little red dots which were found in images from the early universe? This article may explain them \u2014 _____________ The object was lurking in the constellation of Cetus, the Whale, billions of light years from Earth. It is thought to have formed 660m years after the big bang, astronomers\u2019 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":715,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242607","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\/715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}