The James Webb space telescope has discovered what scientists believe could be 'dark stars,' stars made of dark matter.
Still, discovering such a rare type of star is exceptionally exciting. Of course, this isn’t a discovery that is set in stone just yet, and these stars could just turn out to be galaxies instead of the massive dark stars that scientists are theorizing at this point in time. In fact, these “stars” being galaxies is probably the most likely and plausible answer to the problem.
The existence of dark matter stars could also explain how some early galaxies grew so large, with collapsing stars of dark matter being massive enough to form supermassive black holes. No matter how you look at it, the possibility that stars made of dark matter could exist is intriguing, and it does beg the question of what else might be out there in our universe that we don’t know about just yet.
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