Talk The universe has a face full of red dots
5 March 2026
Conference by Federica Loiacono (INAF-OAS)
- 04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
- In person : Aula della Specola, via Zamboni 33, Bologna, Bologna
- Society & Culture In Italian
How to partecipate
Requirements:
Free admission, registration required
Free admission
Why partecipate
To discover Webb’s mysterious little red dots through an engaging journey of new discoveries and big questions about the universe.
Program
They are small, red, and distant. They are one of the surprises from the first years of observations by the James Webb Space Telescope. A puzzle for astronomers around the world. Some say they are galaxies packed to the brim with stars. Some say they are massive black holes wrapped in dense walls of gas. And some say there were quite a lot of them when the universe was at the height of its activity — and that supermassive black holes may have continued to form even in more recent epochs than expected. Let’s try to get to know the little red dots discovered by Webb, and explore together what we have understood so far — and what still remains unknown.
Speakers
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Federica Loiacono
INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio