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Red Dots in Space Turned Out to Be Growing Black Holes ⚡ экспресс

Original: "The Little Red Dots Are Direct Collapse Black Holes"
arXiv:2601.14368 · 2026-01-20 · CC BY · ⏱ 1 min · Galaxies Cosmology High Energy
The James Webb Telescope revealed that mysterious red dots are growing black holes, born without any star involvement.
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Tiny red dots in Webb's images turned out not to be stars, but hungry baby black holes. They are born not from dying stars, but directly from the collapse of gas clouds. This changes our understanding of how quickly monsters appeared in the universe.

🎯 Supermassive black holes can grow so fast that their mass doubles in just 10 million years — by cosmic standards, that's an instant.

🎬 It's like the birth of the black hole Gargantua from Interstellar, but without a stellar collapse — right in the early universe.

Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
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black hole JWST big bang hydrogen galaxy
Laws
Friedmann equationsHubble's lawHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyCoulomb's law
Original: arXiv:2601.14368 · CC BY · bridge42worlds