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 PRETTY MUCH WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING... SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN  UPDATES  -- agreeing with moi! AND HAS A GREAT NEW GRAPHIC (Done by an AI I'd bet.) Sci Am Gigantic, ancient black hole threatens to upend cosmic history Give it a read. I'm gratified that the idea that dark matter was created at the very beginning of the Big Bang and started agglomerating right away to make the supersized black holes that are so mystifying. Like I said .  [[2025 Update]] 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 ...