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Webb’s little red dots may be monster stars, study finds
A Harvard-led study suggests the James Webb Space Telescope’s mysterious “little red dots” could be supermassive stars weighing up to 100,000 times the Sun’s mass. The Times of India reports that the…
The Story in Brief
A Harvard-led study suggests the James Webb Space Telescope’s mysterious “little red dots” could be supermassive stars weighing up to 100,000 times the Sun’s mass. The Times of India reports that the model matches their compact appearance, unusual light spectrum and nitrogen-rich chemical signatures.
The proposed stars may have undergone repeated pulsations, ejecting dense shells of gas that formed the objects’ observed cocoons. They could eventually have collapsed directly into black holes, creating heavy seeds that helped explain how supermassive black holes appeared less than a billion years after the Big Bang. Future Webb observations will test the model with more detailed spectra.
The Indian Opinion
The loudest claims may cast these objects as either confirmed black-hole nurseries or entirely new cosmic entities. Neither conclusion is established. This study offers one model that fits several clues, but competing explanations remain possible and the evidence is indirect. The useful test is straightforward: future James Webb observations must match the predicted spectra and gas signatures across more little red dots.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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