<ul data-eligibleForWebStory="false"><li>Little Red Dots (LRD) are active galactic nuclei in the early universe that appear as small red dots in telescope images.</li><li>LRDs actually represent supermassive black holes hundreds of millions of times the size of our Sun.</li><li>A new paper by Federica Loiacono and colleagues describes a supermassive black hole found with the James Webb Space Telescope 11 billion years ago.</li><li>The discovery sheds light on cosmic phenomena during the 'cosmic noon' period of the early universe.</li></ul>

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