{"id":237068,"date":"2024-06-27T12:46:51","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/little-red-dot-galaxies-are-breaking-theories-of-cosmic-evolution\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:15:59","slug":"little-red-dot-galaxies-are-breaking-theories-of-cosmic-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/27\/little-red-dot-galaxies-are-breaking-theories-of-cosmic-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Little red dot\u2019 galaxies are breaking theories of cosmic evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/26151216\/SEI_210462494.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2437337\" data-caption=\"This red blob is a distant galaxy with strange properties\" data-credit=\"NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">This red blob is a distant galaxy with strange properties<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The \u201clittle red dots\u201d discovered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/definition\/james-webb-space-telescope-jwst\/\">James Webb Space Telescope<\/a> (JWST) pose a cosmic conundrum. It seems that these compact galaxies are either stuffed impossibly full of stars or have black holes that are far too large. Either way, it presents problems for our views of galactic evolution.<\/p>\n<p>When JWST started peering into the early universe, it found hundreds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2329073-red-smudge-seen-by-jwst-could-unlock-chemistry-of-the-early-universe\/\">tiny red galaxies<\/a> everywhere it looked. Their existence alone was surprising, but as researchers dig into the data, they are finding that the\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2437145-little-red-dot-galaxies-are-breaking-theories-of-cosmic-evolution\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] This red blob is a distant galaxy with strange properties NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI The \u201clittle red dots\u201d discovered by the James Webb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}