Astronomers sometimes talk about the universe as a series of puzzles that arrive one pixel at a time, and few images capture that better than a single, unresolved red speck at the edge of a ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered mysterious “little red dots” that may not be galaxies at all, but a whole new type of object: black hole stars. These fiery spheres, ...