JWST image of a small red dot galaxy
Josephine, F. W. Budgen et al. (2024).
A strangely bright galaxy discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) called the “Little Red Dot” may be packed with more stars than any other galaxy we know. It's so dense that it's unclear how some of its stars are even surviving without colliding with their neighbors, calling into question astronomers' best-kept ideas about how galaxies grow.
Shortly after the JWST begins exploring the very distant universe in 2022, astronomers began to discover a very bright, red, but distinctly small galaxy that they called the “Little Red Dot”…
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