Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of supermassive black holes ...

The red coloration of these surprisingly bright early galaxies is thought to come from gas and dust in a flattened cloud of matter around supermassive black holes called an accretion disk.

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery of an "extremely red" supermassive black hole in the early universe. The red hue observed around this ...