Image A: Little Red Dots (NIRCam Image) (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Image A: Little Red Dots (NIRCam Image)

Caption

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest samples of “little red dots” to date. From their sample, they found that these mysterious red objects that appear small on the sky emerge in large numbers around 600 million years after the big bang and undergo a rapid decline in quantity around 1.5 billion years after the big bang.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Dale Kocevski (Colby College).

Credit

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Dale Kocevski (Colby College).

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