A view of the early universe captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, including numerous little red dots whose nature is uncertainNASA, ESA, CSA, Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin)A mysterious class of small, red objects in the early universe might be explained by black holes inside dense cocoons of gas, like a star.Since launching in 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found hundreds of objects in the early universe that appear extremely red and compact, dubbed little red dots (LRDs).