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.