3212: Little Red Dots

Little Red Dots

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Title text: After a lot of analysis, I've determined that they're actually big red dots; they're just very far away.

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This is one of 69 incomplete explanations: This page was created by a LITTLE RED BOT. Don't remove this notice too soon. If you can fix this issue, edit the page!

oh yeah by the way if ur actually wondering about the explanation the little red dots are young black holes from 500-700 million years after the Big Bang in the JWST telescope

Cherry angiomas are very common, harmless, non-cancerous skin growths made of clusters of dilated capillaries, appearing as bright red, smooth, or slightly raised spots.

Stuck pixels are pixels that do not work properly, and are stuck to one single color.

Jasper (#d73b3e) and Vermillion (#e34234, sometimes called Cinnabar)

Clover mites(someone please make this a link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clover_mite ) (Bryobia praetiosa) are very small Red Spiders. (make this a link to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Red_Spiders )

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Everyone why is absolutely nothing here yet Ehogin (talk) 03:08, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Because this comic came out like 2 hours ago. Xkdvd (talk) 04:17, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Yeah by the amount of people who read xkcd you would think at least 100 people saw this and did not do anything for two hours Ehogin (talk) 04:45, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Its not a question of how many people read xkcd, its how many people use explain xkcd, and edit, and know what to put here. EDIT: forgot my signature. oops. Xkdvd (talk) 04:51, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

OK, we want something here? I get Clover Mites a lot. On the patio table, on the deck chairs. On the car, but I fooled them this time: I got a cherry-red car. Maybe they got into the JWST? --PRR (talk) 05:32, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Current title text explanation seems like a bit of a stretch to me; see 2359 for a more refined take on explaining a very a similar joke. 204.77.3.72 08:32, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Sure, whatever you say Father Dougal. --2A10:D586:3E93:0:21B8:BB66:6F56:9A06 08:53, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

TV criminologists: a pattern centered on the killer's home. 194.75.188.171 11:15, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I don't know if it is "nitpicking" per se (though admittedly that is a clever pun, even though nits are generally brown and are rarely red). It could be that the graphic designer is genuinely interested in helping identify the color. Cwallenpoole (talk) 12:41, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

My complements to whomever added the color dots; nicely done. -- Dtgriscom (talk) 12:54, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I've added a link to the oldest (so far) black hole discovery -- dww-uk 2a12:f43:143e:0:e14c:82a5:e0bc:8959 (talk) 13:19, 26 February 2026 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Small red arachnids... seem familiar to anyone else? GreyFox (talk) 14:49, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

Note: While the graphic designer might be accurate, for an astronomer, any color that is even slightly "orange" is designated as "red", similarly anything slightly "green" is designated as "blue". Analagous to how any atom with more protons than helium is called a metal in astronomy. Galeindfal (talk) 15:53, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

I think any explanation of a comic with an acronym in it should include an explanation of what that acronym is...for those of us who can't remember? (JWST) I also don't know how to insert this "user" signoff?
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