Stars are big, hot balls of fusion-powered fire, right? Not always. The most exotic stars that might be out there could be powered by dark matter or made entirely of quarks.
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Over the past month there have been several fascinating bits of news about some of the weirdest stars in the universe – even objects that seem to me like they shouldn’t really count as stars at all, such as “dark stars”, which are powered by dark matter. So, …
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