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The object looks like a star the size of our solar system, but produces 100 billion times more energy than any star.
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The object looks like a star the size of our solar system, but produces 100 billion times more energy than any star.
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A newly found black hole star, MoM‑BH*‑1, may finally explain James Webb Space Telescope's little red dots in the early universe.
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A distant black hole star is providing strong evidence that these objects lie at the hearts of the mysterious little red dots found shortly after the Big Bang by the James Webb Space Telescope.
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The researchers are calling it a "one in a billion" discovery.
Read this reportFirst glimpsed as “little red dots” in deep-space images from the James Webb Space Telescope, these giant, gas-shrouded black holes are full of surprises
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AIPROPX has consolidated 5 reports from 5 outlets into a single canonical entry on “New space object masquerades as a star the size of our solar system.” Every covered outlet is based in Other.
The earliest report in this entry came from Scientific American (Aug 12, 2026, 15:00 UTC); the most recent came from The Straits Times (Aug 12, 2026, 16:05 UTC).
Comparing the wording across sources, 5 named entities are referenced by multiple outlets and the phrase recurring most across the coverage is “black hole”.
6 statements are carried by only one outlet within this set and are not echoed by the others.
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