Something in the young universe is shining like a star that should not be possible. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected a compact red object so luminous that ordinary nuclear fusion cannot plausibly explain it. Although the source has a star-like appearance and may be surrounded by gas on the scale of the solar [...]
JWST Finds a “Star” 100 Billion Times Brighter Than Any Star Should Be
Jennifer Chu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology