Nikko J. Cleri

The James Webb Telescope discovered that the mysterious red dots are not hot disks around black holes, but dense clouds of water vapor with temperatures around 2000–4000 °C. This reduced the mass estimates of black holes by an order of magnitude.

The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted mysterious "Little Red Dots" in the early universe—compact objects that don't fit standard models. A new study suggests they may be quasi-stars: black holes shrouded in a dense gas cocoon that thermalizes radiation like a giant furnace. Calculations using t

In a new study presented in the MEOW survey, astronomers used the MIRI infrared camera on the James Webb Space Telescope to search for dust-obscured active galactic nuclei from an era when the Universe was less than a billion years old. Analyzing the emission from hot dust allowed them to identify 1