JWST images of little red dot galaxies Josephine F.W. Baggen et al. (2024)
Strangely bright galaxies spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), called 鈥渓ittle red dots鈥, may have more stars packed into them than any other galaxies we know of. The density appears so high that it鈥檚 unclear how the stars even survive without crashing into their neighbours, challenging astronomers鈥 best ideas of how galaxies grow.
Shortly after JWST started searching the extremely distant universe in 2022, astronomers started to see extremely bright and red, but apparently tiny, galaxies, which they called little red dots…
