Comments on: Webb detects unexpected “little red dots” in the early universe https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/webb-detects-unexpected-little-red-dots-in-the-early-universe/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Greg the Geologist https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/webb-detects-unexpected-little-red-dots-in-the-early-universe/#comment-1605083 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 21:25:59 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115229#comment-1605083 Could these be “embryonic” galaxies, around which matter (formed eventually into stars) circled gravitationally, eventually forming the nucleus of galaxies as we’d recognize them? Just a geologist thinking out loud . . .

]]> By: Don C. https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/webb-detects-unexpected-little-red-dots-in-the-early-universe/#comment-1604934 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:19:45 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115229#comment-1604934 I guess I missed astronomy 101. These early black holes don’t require stars to form as a pre-cursor. The accumulation of matter bypasses star formation, but just for this first set of BHs, not the ones that we have come to see (in the rhetorical sense) & love now.

Lots of matter accumulates, but doesn’t form stars, goes straight to the (dark) heart of the matter as a BH, so little visible light is ever emitted. These guys just make their theories up. Thank goodness for the experimentalists who actually do real-world measurements.

Wonders of science, eh?

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/webb-detects-unexpected-little-red-dots-in-the-early-universe/#comment-1604807 Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:36:56 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=115229#comment-1604807 ‘There’s a Little Red Dot in the sky today
Could it be a black hole from yesterday?’

The Police, maybe.

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