{"id":247124,"date":"2026-11-11T19:19:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T01:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/is-this-the-reason-behind-hundreds-of-little-red-dots-in-the-sky"},"modified":"2026-11-11T19:19:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T01:19:56","slug":"is-this-the-reason-behind-hundreds-of-little-red-dots-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/is-this-the-reason-behind-hundreds-of-little-red-dots-in-the-sky","title":{"rendered":"Is this the reason behind hundreds of little red dots in the sky?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Now researchers from <a href=\"https:\/\/hub.jhu.edu\/2026\/11\/04\/james-webb-little-red-dots-primordial-black-holes\/\">Johns Hopkins University<\/a> in Baltimore think they have the answer \u2013 a never-before-seen type of black hole, according to their paper in <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/6y1w-87pd\">Physical Review Letters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018They are very compact, red objects, seen as they were within roughly the first billion years after the Big Bang,\u2019 the study\u2019s co-author, Loris Del Grosso, tells <strong>Metro<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At first they were puzzling because they did not fit either of the obvious explanations.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore think they have the answer \u2013 a never-before-seen type of black hole, according to their paper in Physical Review Letters. \u2018They are very compact, red objects, seen as they were within roughly the first billion years after the Big Bang,\u2019 the study\u2019s co-author, Loris Del Grosso, tells [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247124","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}