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The black-hole star has company, and the side it took has variants

The black-hole star has company, and the side it took has variants

Sep 18, 2026 | Journal

A month ago this column looked at MoM-BH\-1, the single object that a team led by Rohan Naidu (MIT / University of Hawaiʻi) had just named in the pages of Nature* on 12 August 2026, and noted that the field had not picked a side about what JWST's Little Red Dots...
A black hole wrapped in starlight, and the question it isn’t quite answering

A black hole wrapped in starlight, and the question it isn’t quite answering

Aug 15, 2026 | Journal

Three days ago a paper in Nature named an object MoM-BH\-1, and the name is half the news. The asterisk is on purpose. MoM stands for "Mirage or Miracle," a survey the authors were running when the object dropped into their crosshairs; the BH\ is shorthand...

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