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Are the James Webb Space Telescope's mysterious Little Red Dots actually tiny black holes left over from the Big Bang era?


New research suggests that Little Red Dots, which have puzzled astronomers since the JWST began discovering them, could host primordial black holes born during the Big Bang.

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