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  And I Thought Those Way-too-Early  Galaxies Were the Story...  HA! So far, only SIX of these have been found. [1] THE REAL STORY So far, 341 "Little red dots" have been found by the mighty JWST space telescope. [2] The best hypothesis about these (so far) is that they are Black Hole Stars,   a completely new kind of celestial body ! (The last such newbie is from 1992, the magnetar.) I'm BIG, say 260 light years across. Think about it. NOT SUCH A "LITTLE" RED DOT These things -- astronomers are calling them "rubies" -- are beyond huge for something called a  'star."  If one was in the milky way, say 1000 light years from us, It would look gigantic -- biggest thing in the sky by a lot, nearly 30 times the diameter of the moon! Almost as big as the Orion constellation. As in huge .  My Hypothesis Still Works!  (Cheering is heard off camera.)  In a nutshell: Scooter Duff's  (updated) Theory of Cosmology 1. Dark matter was a first product o...