| Astronomers Find Little Red Dots About to Merge |
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| One of JWST's first discoveries was Little Red Dots (LRDs). These are compact objects, just tens of light-years across, that were reddish blobs, like supergiant red stars. Astronomers still don't know what they are, probably supermassive black holes surrounded by a cloud of gas or dust, but recently, a team has discovered several pairs of LRDs that seem to be in binary pairs and will eventually merge. Are these how supermassive black holes formed in the early Universe? |
