The James Webb telescope found mysterious “red dots”—distant objects glowing brightly in hydrogen lines but nearly invisible in X-rays. Perhaps this is the moment when an adolescent galaxy greedily swallows gas hidden behind a dense curtain. The answer may point to a new type of dark matter—ultralight wave-particles that create gravitational funnels.
🎯 To create such a curtain, more hydrogen falls into this tiny volume than exists in an entire small galaxy—this region is about the distance from the Sun to the nearest stars.
🎬 If light dark matter is real, space is permeated by a wave-like fog that shapes galaxy growth—an idea Ken Liu toyed with in his story “Waves,” where the structure of the Universe hinges on quantum fluctuations.