Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery

When the James Webb Space Telescope first came online in 2022, it immediately spotted something astronomers had never seen before: "little red dots" peppering deep space, originating from around when the universe was just one billion years old. Ever since, we've struggled to explain what these faint signals could be. The prevailing theory is that they're some kind of extremely compact galaxy — but at only two percent the diameter of the Milky Way, the distribution of sstars would have to be impo