JWST’s mysterious little red dots may be black holes growing at incredible speeds
THE SO WHAT
If early-universe black holes grew dozens of times faster than today’s, our models for extreme, non-linear growth are still underdeveloped. Treat this as a reminder that compounding in complex systems routinely overshoots intuition—use stress tests, not linear projections, for any exponential tech exposure.
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