This week, we are hosting ISSI International Team 659, “Little Red Dots, Big Open Questions”, led by Mengyuan Xiao & Rohan Naidu @rpnaidu.bsky.social. The team brings together observers and theorists to study one of the James Webb Space Telescope’s most intriguing discoveries: Little Red Dots. 🔴🔭

Paper day!! Little Red Dots (LRDs) are seen everywhere by JWST, but even after 3 years of relentless effort we are still debating what these things actually are. We decompose LRDs to show LRD - Host Galaxy = Black Hole Star (BH*)! 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2601.20929 🔭 🧪

My first bluesky post 🙌 I'm a final-year undergrad at MIT, studying Physics & AI. I'm interested in astronomy, and currently working on little red dots!