{"id":611183,"date":"2026-07-30T06:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/611183\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T06:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:11:20","slug":"little-red-dot-at-redshift-2-real-and-simulated-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/611183\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Red Dot at Redshift 2: Real and Simulated Graphic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists analyzed Hubble\u2019s ultraviolet- and Webb\u2019s infrared-imaging and spectroscopic archival data, respectively, to confirm lower-redshift spiral galaxy WISEA J123635.56+621424.2 \u2014 nicknamed the \u201cSaguaro\u201d for its prominent spiral arms \u2014 met the criteria of a prototypical LRD. Additionally, the team synthetically shifted the galaxy to a higher redshift to find out how this galactic environment would appear to observers if located in the early universe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the team expected, the Saguaro\u2019s surrounding galactic structure fades so that only the bright, LRD-like source at its center is visible. This suggests that although LRDs may seem like a unique galaxy population, they are actually affected by observational bias and some features just don\u2019t appear at higher redshifts with current technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists analyzed Hubble\u2019s ultraviolet- and Webb\u2019s infrared-imaging and spectroscopic archival data, respectively, to confirm lower-redshift spiral galaxy WISEA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[270],"tags":[18,3094,3095,19,17,6124,133,451],"class_list":["post-611183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-eire","tag-galaxies","tag-hubble-space-telescope","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-webb-space-telescope-jwst","tag-science","tag-space"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117007448936546943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}