{"id":3927451,"date":"2026-08-12T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mirage-or-miracle-jwst-finds-earliest-known-black-hole-star-at-cosmic-dawn\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T10:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:00:52","slug":"mirage-or-miracle-jwst-finds-earliest-known-black-hole-star-at-cosmic-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mirage-or-miracle-jwst-finds-earliest-known-black-hole-star-at-cosmic-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirage or miracle? JWST finds earliest known &#8216;black hole star&#8217; at cosmic dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Little red dots have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data from the universe&#8217;s deep past. Their &#8220;powering engines&#8221; might resemble a newly discovered phenomenon dubbed a &#8220;black hole star&#8221;\u2014an early, rapidly growing black hole wrapped in dense gas. This object, described in a study published today in Nature by researchers at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and international collaborators, may help explain how billion-solar-mass black holes formed so soon after the Big Bang.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-mirage-miracle-jwst-earliest-black.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little red dots have puzzled astronomers since their discovery in James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) data from the universe&#8217;s deep past. Their &#8220;powering engines&#8221; might resemble a newly discovered phenomenon dubbed a &#8220;black hole star&#8221;\u2014an early, rapidly growing black hole wrapped in dense gas. This object, described in a study published today in Nature by [&#8230;]<\/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-3927451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}