Strange red dots in the ancient Universe could be 'counterparts' of black holes without an event horizon. Their light reddens due to gravity, and they are fueled by the hidden energy of a phase transition of matter into a negative‑mass state.
🎯 Back in the 1960s, scientists measured gravitational redshift on Earth: light at the bottom of a tower was a quadrillionth bluer than at the top—just as Einstein said it would be.
🎬 In Ted Chiang's novella 'Story of Your Life', gravitational anomalies serve as the aliens' language. These red dots are real windows into uncharted states of matter—no sci-fi, just genuine science.