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Small red dots in the sky are tiny black holes, scientists say

Source: NASA, ESA, CSA, J. Matthee (ISTA), R. Mackenzie (ETH Zurich), D. Kashino (National Observatory of Japan), S. Lilly (ETH Zurich)

Red dots in the sky are tiny black holes, scientists say.

The specks in the distant universe could change our understanding of how supermassive black holes form and explain mysteries in that process, according to the researchers who found them.

Scientists had seen the small red dots through the Hubble Space Telescope.

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