Place a few dots of red paint on a stark black canvas, and you can make something stunning. Think of a black background ...

A mysterious class of small, red objects in the early universe might be explained by black holes inside dense ... dubbed little red dots (LRDs). Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

Large galaxies that exist today almost all seem to have a supermassive black hole at their centers, he notes. A subsample of little red dots that researchers examined in more detail showed light ...

"There's a substantial amount of work being done to try to determine the nature of these little red dots and whether their light is dominated by accreting black holes." Upon their discovery back ...