Jennifer Nalewicki is a Salt Lake City-based journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Scientific American, Popular Mechanics and more. She covers several science topics from planet Earth to paleontology and archaeology to health and culture. Prior to freelancing, Jennifer held an Editor role at Time Inc.
A cluster of faint, red dots lurking in the farthest reaches of the universe could change our understanding of how supermassive black holes form.
While these mysterious spots had been previously recorded by the Hubble Space Telescope, it wasn't until scientists viewed them using the far more powerful JWST that they could finally distinguish them from normal galaxies, according to a statement. Astronomers using JWST have already uncovered many of these problematic black holes and struggle to explain them with current theories of cosmology.
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