#Repost///@futurism: NASA scientists have made one of its "most unexpected" discoveries to date: tiny red dots in some of the oldest corners of the universe are actually "baby" life stages of supermassive black holes.After studying observations by the groundbreaking observatory, the team concluded that "faint little red dots very far away in the universe's distant past are small versions of extremely massive black holes," said team lead Jorryt Matthee, astrophysics assistant professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria and lead author of a new paper."These special objects could change the way we think about the genesis of black holes," he added.The team hopes to hone in on how these early-stage supermassive black holes, which often lurk at the center of large galaxies, came to be and how they change over billions of years.Go to the link in our bio to read more about what could come from this fascinating find.
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