This means all of its light is generated by accretion onto the black hole at the center of the cloud. Signup to our newsletter Follow us on Google"Considering the black hole star as a template for the black hole component of little red dots helps clarify many of the uncertainties about them," said Matthee. "If embedded in similar host galaxies, black hole stars like MoM-BH*-1 might well serve as the central engines of baby quasars ." An artist's impression depicting the similarity between stars and black hole stars, except that black hole stars are at least 100,000 times larger than the sun. "These are incredibly exciting times with nearly a thousand papers and preprints on little red dots in the past two to three years," said Matthee.