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Black hole stars challenge our idea of the universe

A potentially new cosmic object raises the question of which came first: black holes, or stars and galaxies?

The writer is a science commentator

The mysterious celestial objects became known as the “little red dots”. The scarlet blobs, scattered over images of deep space collected by the orbiting James Webb Space Telescope, defied explanation.

The dots looked like bright mature galaxies but, puzzlingly, seemed anchored in a universe too young to host them. It was like flicking through an album of cosmic baby photos and finding portraits of a teenager.

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