12-08-2026 17:00 via popsci.com

Astronomers discover the existence of a ‘black hole star’

The strange bright red dots are visible in nearly every image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). However, the frequency of their cosmic cameos didn’t make them any more explicable to astronomers. But after four years of analysis, researchers now believe they know why it was so difficult to identify these mystery subjects: they’re an entirely new astrophysical source.“Our picture of this object is evolving very rapidly,” Rohan Naidu, an astrophysicist at MIT,
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