Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

When a star more than 20 times the size of our sun dies and explodes in a supernova, the remaining matter collapses down into an extremely dense object called a black hole. These mysterious voids ...

but their unique icy feature and distance from regions of star formation made them an unknown event. "Previous infrared observations have reported that both objects show deep ice and dust ...