Massive Black Holes May Have Started as Little Red Dots
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"Massive Black Holes May Have Started as Little Red Dots" is generating significant coverage in the Science category, with 5 articles from 4 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
Outlets currently covering the story include Techno-Science, The New York Times, BBC Sky at Night Magazine and Quanta Magazine. PULSE measures a story's velocity from how quickly new articles appear and how many independent newsrooms join the coverage.
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Coverage (5)
- 🌌 Supermassive black holes may have appeared much more easily in the young Universe Techno-Science · 3h ago
- Massive Black Holes May Have Started as Little Red Dots The New York Times · 3h ago
- 🔴 James Webb reveals what lies around mysterious red dots Techno-Science · 2d ago
- A scientist looked at 'little red dots' in the early Universe and found a black hole that shouldn't exist BBC Sky at Night Magazine · 2d ago
- Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’ Quanta Magazine · 2d ago
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