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Mysterious red dots have been spotted all over the early Universe.
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A series of little red dots is shattering our understanding of how the Universe began. These bizarre, glowing dots are far too massive and bright for their age, suggesting they could be a brand new type of cosmic object. Join us as we investigate the mind-boggling theories… Could these red dots be black hole stars?



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0:00 Mysterious Red Dots
2:24 What Are They?
3:58 Redshift
5:07 Spectrum Clues
6:44 Starburst Galaxies
9:21 Supermassive Black Holes
14:19 JWST: RUBIES Survey
15:54 The Cliff
19:00 Black Hole Stars
21:53 Host Galaxy
24:35 Quasi-stars
27:50 The First Supermassive Black Holes
29:38 Direct Collapse Black Hole



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References:
“JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Offer the Universe’s Weirdest Puzzle”, via scientificamerican.com https://astrumspace.info/jwstreddots
“LRDs: An Abundant Population of Faint Active Galactic Nuclei”, via iopscience.iop.org https://astrumspace.info/lrdagn
“The EIGER Survey”, via adsabs.harvard.edu https://astrumspace.info/eiger
“Exotic Black Hole Star Could Be LRD”, via scientificamerican.com https://astrumspace.info/blackholestar
“LRDs as Young SMBH in Dense Ionized Cocoons”, via nature.com https://astrumspace.info/lrdcocoons
“Dust in LRDs”, via iopscience.iop.org https://astrumspace.info/lrddust

“Balmer Breaks”, via astrobites.org https://astrumspace.info/balmerbreaks
“The Cliff: Extreme Balmer Break of an LRD at z = 3.5”, via aanda.org https://astrumspace.info/cliff
“A Black Hole Star Reveals the Gas-Enshrouded Hearts of LRDs”, via researchgate.net https://astrumspace.info/bhstar
“Quasi-Stars”, via academic.oup.com https://astrumspace.info/quasistars



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Credits:
Writer: Julia Masselos
Video Editor: Eduardo Solórzano
Researcher: Shourya Shrivastava
Script Editor: Damaris McColgan
Thumbnail Designer: Peter Sheppard
Publishing Lead: Georgina Brenner
Production Manager: Raquel Taylor
Edit Producer: Poppy Pinnock
Head of Astrum: Jess Jordan
Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan



With special thanks to:
NASA/ESO/ESA



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