Massive Suns Powered by Darkness May Have Been Spotted at The Dawn of Time : ScienceAlert

Three objects spotted lurking in the murk of the Cosmic Dawn could be powered by collisions between particles made not of normal star stuff but the enigmatic material known as dark matter.

Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of theoretical astrophysicists has determined that three galaxies – named JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0, and JADES-GS-z11-0 – are consistent with what we might expect if we were looking at colossal, single stars powered by dark matter heating, rather than nuclear fusion.

According to Cosmin Ilie and Jillian Paulin of Colgate University and…