A team of researchers suggests the space observatory just spotted 'dark stars'—theoretical stellar objects powered by dark matter.
, but only now is the Webb Space Telescope offering clear views of some of the most ancient light we can see. The theorized stars would be cool, puffy, and up to ten billion times the luminosity of the Sun, according to the research team.
The research team believes that dark stars could be misconstrued as large galaxies, and that the stars may seed the supermassive black holes seen even in the universe’s early days—which is to say, the first few hundred million years of its existence.Some of those supermassive black holes may also be at play in the gravitational wave background, which.
More observations with Webb will give astrophysicists a better look at those ancient sources of light; be they galaxies or stars powered by dark matter, we hopefully won’t be kept in the dark much longer.
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