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The universe is full of strange ‘little red dots’. A new study shines light on their real nature

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par Andrew Battisti, Research Fellow in Astrophysics at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, The University of Western Australia; Australian National University

In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed something strange: the distant reaches of the universe are filled with “little red dots” that astronomers still can’t quite explain.

But a new paper I coauthored, published today in Nature Astronomy, might have found the key to understanding their nature.

It turns out…

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