James Webb Space Telescope's strange little red dots may really be 'black hole stars', X-ray data suggests

An artist's impression of a window into the heart of a little red dot, revealing the supermassive black hole within. The discovery of an X-ray signal coinciding with the location of one of the mysterious 'little red dots' found by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has strengthened the theory that the dots are 'black hole stars' — huge, dense clumps of gas energized by a growing supermassive black hole.

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