See also Wikipedia. Apparently this is the first time a candidate for an object like this was discovered.
fascinating!
Astronomers discover a new kind of cosmic object – a black hole ‘star’
Submitted 15 hours ago by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to astronomy@mander.xyz
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kazerniel@piefed.world 10 hours ago monkdervierte@lemmy.zip@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
Computer simulations showed that rather than being an enormous star powered by nuclear fusion, the object is a black hole so swaddled in shrouds of dense gas that it radiates like a star.
If the astronomers are correct, it suggests that scores of other mysterious Little Red Dots, or LRDs, that appear in nearly every deep space image from the James Webb space telescope are also black hole stars.
Naidu suspects that black hole stars play a major role in the evolution of galaxies. They might be the seeds of present-day supermassive black holes, such as the one at the centre of the Milky Way.
MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Huh. Might one call this a black hole sun, perhaps?
BarticusR@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Does it wash away the rain?