Season 4 · Episode 3
Giant Black Holes Cosplay as Little Red Dots
EVSN: Escape Velocity Space News · Pamela L Gay
October 16, 202526m 46s
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Show Notes
The universe is hard enough to figure out without one kind of object dressing up as another, but - just in time for Halloween - researchers have figured out that the Little Red Dot in the early universe just might be massive black holes surrounded in a costume of glowing red gas. Also in this episode, Hyabusa2's amusingly tiny destination, a white dwarf star eating what may be an icy dwarf planet, and tales from the launch pad.