Little Red Dots Could Be Something Completely Unexpected

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Fraser Cain
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Published3 months ago
Duration34:25
Video ID4caOfg5K8Is
Languageen
CategoryScience & Technology
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🔴 [Interview+] No YT ads. Bonus Part. FREE for everyone https://www.patreon.com/posts/153092906/ Little Red Dots are one of the biggest mysteries from JWST so far. They could be galaxies. They could be supermassive black holes. But they also could be supermassive stars. In fact, this suggestion could help solve another big cosmological mystery about globular clusters. More details on that in this interview. 🟣 Guest: Dr. John Chisholm https://www.chisholmjohn.com/ 📜 Little Red Dots as Globular Clusters in Formation https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15935 00:00 Intro 01:41 Finding LRDs in JWST data 07:05 Probably not black holes 13:08 Globular clusters as possible descendants 18:56 The evidence for supermassive stars 28:49 Current obsessions 31:00 Final thoughts 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://www.universetoday.com/podcast Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER [email protected] ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.

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