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This month on All Space Considered, Griffith Observatory welcomed Dr. Joel Leja, Associate Professor of astronomy & astrophysics at The Pennsylvania State University, to discuss his research on the processes of galaxy formation derived from a combination of statistics, machine learning, and deep galaxy surveys with telescopes like the James Webb Space Telescope: #LittleRedDots

As foretold by the prophecy of #Soundgarden
#Astronomy #LittleRedDots

Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object – a black hole ‘star’
The body is the size of the entire solar system and glows with a brilliant red light about 30bn light years from Earth

No evolution in the number density of #LittleRedDots from cosmic dawn to cosmic noon: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30253 -> Backyard Black Holes: https://astrobites.org/2026/07/09/backyard-lrds/

An LRD-like Nucleus at the Heart of an IR-bright Galaxy and its Implications for High-redshift LRDs: #LittleRedDots

Next at #ag2026garching came Anna de Graaff explaining Webb's #LittleRedDots as #BlackHoleStars - as discussed first in https://www.mpg.de/25316826/black-hole-stars a year ago - or something similar.