Webb's 'Little Red Dots' Identified as Black Hole Stars via X-Ray Data

Across the infrared depths of the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope had been returning images that unsettled the scientific consensus — small, intensely red objects burning too brightly, too early, in cosmic history. Now, through the combined sight of Webb and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, those enigmatic 'little red dots' have been identified as black hole stars: ancient objects harboring supermassive black holes at their cores, feeding voraciously on surrounding matter. Their existence challenges the prevailing theory that such massive structures required billions of years t