{"id":3923456,"date":"2026-01-06T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-telescope-sheds-light-on-ancient-monster-stars-that-may-reveal-the-birth-of-black-holes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:03:33","slug":"webb-telescope-sheds-light-on-ancient-monster-stars-that-may-reveal-the-birth-of-black-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/webb-telescope-sheds-light-on-ancient-monster-stars-that-may-reveal-the-birth-of-black-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Webb telescope sheds light on ancient &#8216;monster stars&#8217; that may reveal the birth of black holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Using data from NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) have revealed the universe&#8217;s most mysterious distant objects, known as little red dots, may actually be gigantic, short-lived stars.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-01-webb-telescope-ancient-monster-stars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using data from NASA&#8217;s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard &amp; Smithsonian (CfA) have revealed the universe&#8217;s most mysterious distant objects, known as little red dots, may actually be gigantic, short-lived stars. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3923456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3923456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3923456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3923456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3923456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3923456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}