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Black Hole Stars

NASA's Webb Telescope Provides Strongest Evidence Yet for 'Black Hole Stars'

NASA's Webb provides strongest evidence for 'black hole stars'.
GLIMPSE-17775 shows multiple lines of evidence for black hole star model.
Deepest spectrum of a little red dot supports supermassive black hole in gas cocoon.
Findings published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 10, 2026·via science.nasa.gov

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A JWST image of the highly distorted red galaxy MRG-M0138 seen through a foreground cluster of galaxies (white sources). Via the phenomenon of gravitational lensing, the same background galaxy is multiply imaged four times. Courtesy: NASA/JWST

JWST Measures Mass of Most Distant Quiescent Black Hole Using Orbiting Stars

JWST and gravitational lensing used to measure mass of dormant black hole MRG-M0138.
Black hole is 6 billion solar masses, located 10 billion light-years away.
Most distant quiescent black hole ever found, existing when Universe was 3 billion years old.
Technique uses stellar motions and lensing to weigh invisible black holes.

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DT Editorial Team·Jun 10, 2026·via universetoday.com

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An image of the massive galaxy cluster MACS J0416 with a three-color composite image of LAP1-B in "velocity space" (inset). Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/K. Nakajima et al. (2026)

JWST Spots the Most Chemically Primitive Early Galaxy Yet Seen

Astronomers studied LAP1-B, a galaxy seen 800 million years after the Big Bang.
The team says it is the most metal-poor early-universe galaxy yet observed.
The result offers a new route to studying conditions near the first generations of stars.

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DT Editorial Team·May 27, 2026·via universetoday.com

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An artist's concept of the X-ray bright little red dot (XRD) dubbed 3DHST-AEGIS-12014. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/M. Weiss; adapted by K. Arcand &amp; J. Major

X-Ray Signal May Help Explain the Early Universe’s ‘Little Red Dots’

Astronomers identified an X-ray-emitting little red dot about 11.8 billion light-years away.
The detection strengthens the case that some little red dots are linked to black hole growth.
Researchers think the object may represent a transitional form between obscured systems and more obvious active black holes.

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DT Editorial Team·May 11, 2026·via universetoday.com

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An artist's illustration of an X-ray dot. A growing supermassive black hole is at the center of a large, patchy sphere of red gas.

NASA’s ‘X-Ray Dot’ Could Help Explain a Strange Population From the Early Universe

Chandra found a distant ‘X-ray dot’ that resembles a little red dot but also emits X-rays.
NASA says the object may bridge early black hole-star scenarios and more typical growing supermassive black holes.
The discovery could help explain a much larger population of mysterious early-universe sources.

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DT Editorial Team·May 6, 2026·via nasa.gov

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 2, 2026·via newscientist.com

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DT Editorial Team·Apr 1, 2026·via universetoday.com

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DT Editorial Team·Feb 26, 2026·5 min read·via universetoday.com

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DT Editorial Team·Feb 21, 2026·7 min read·via space.com

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We may have just glimpsed the universe's first stars

JWST data may offer the clearest view yet of the universe’s first stars

Researchers say galaxy Hebe may host Population III stars.
The galaxy existed about 400 million years after the big bang.
Follow-up JWST observations strengthened an earlier spectral hint.

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Artist's depiction of Primordial Black Holes. Credit - NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center

Exploding Primordial Black Holes Could Recast How Scientists Picture the Early Universe

A new preprint argues that evaporating low-mass primordial black holes may have produced shockwaves in the early universe’s plasma.
The work suggests their deaths were more explosive than standard diffuse-heating models assume.
The idea could matter for theories about how the early universe evolved, though it remains speculative.

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Clusters of young galaxies in the early Universe that later grow into large clusters are called protoclusters. Credit &amp; ©: N.Sulzenauer/MPIfR

How Giant Galaxies Formed Just 1.4 Billion Years After the Big Bang

JWST has found galaxies with tens of billions of solar masses existing just 1.4 billion years after the Big Bang
Standard models predict such massive galaxies should take many billions of years to form
Proposed explanations include higher star formation efficiency and early supermassive black holes
The findings could indicate gaps in our understanding of dark matter or cosmic expansion

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A grid showing 18 dusty galaxies that look like reddish splotches and golden splotches.

70 Ancient Dusty Galaxies at the Edge of the Universe Could Rewrite Cosmic History

48 astronomers from 14 countries identified 70 dusty galaxies from the universe's first billion years using JWST and ALMA
The galaxies show surprising levels of metals and dust, suggesting multiple generations of stars had already lived and died
They may represent the missing evolutionary link between bright early galaxies and dead quiescent ones
Current cosmological models did not predict this level of chemical enrichment so early in cosmic history
The findings were published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on February 20, 2026

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