JWST imagery hints the 'little red dots' are distant galactic cores, not new objects

New JWST imagery suggests the enigmatic 'little red dots' seen in deep-field images are likely ordinary distant galaxies whose bright centers outshine the rest, rather than a new class of object. Researchers used the nearby spiral galaxy Saguaro (about 3.3 billion years after the Big Bang) to model how such galaxies would look at earlier epochs, showing that LRDs could be early-universe galaxies with active nuclei and offering clues about how galaxies and their central black holes grew over cosmic time.