Astronomers believe they've spotted three objects known as dark stars originating just hundreds of years after the Big Bang.
could help resolve discrepancies in the current cosmological model and deepen our understanding of dark matter.
"Discovering a new type of star is pretty interesting all by itself, but discovering it's dark matter that's powering this — that would be huge," Katherine Freese, co-author of the study and a renowned astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin, said in aDark matter is a tricky thing to study. Though scientists believe it makes up roughly 27 percent of the universe, we can't actually see it because it doesn't interact with light.
Scientists theorize that dark matter could be made up of Weakly Interacting Massive Particles that are believed to annihilate themselves upon colliding, releasing heat. If these WIMPs collide in a cloud of collapsing hydrogen atoms, their energetic interactions could end up powering the star that eventually forms — a dark star.
According to the researchers, this means that dark stars could grow to be astoundingly large, dwarfing conventional fusion-powered ones like our own. By their estimates, a dark star could beIf dark stars are real, their existence could explain why astronomers have observed too many
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