In the earliest light the James Webb Space Telescope has gathered, small reddish objects appeared where conventional theory said nothing so massive could yet exist. Now, researchers in Japan have turned to supercomputer simulations to ask whether the universe's first moments operated by rules we have not yet fully written down. Their models suggest that black holes in the cosmic dawn could have grown at extraordinary speeds through mechanisms our modern cosmos no longer offers — placing these 'little red dots' not outside the laws of physics, but at the frontier of our understanding of them.