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Freese's team flags candidate 'dark stars' among JWST objects

1 Sep 19 2:33 AM · 4d ago · 1 article · 1 source · development 1 of 3

Researchers, including Katherine Freese of the University of Texas at Austin, report that of the nine JWST objects with measured spectra, one is confirmed to be an early galaxy while three could be either galaxies or dark stars made only of hydrogen and helium.

Freese's team flags candidate 'dark stars' among JWST objects
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“We figured out that after a chain of reactions, the dark matter particles could annihilate each other and end up mostly as photons and other particles.”

Katherine Freese

Katherine Freese Director, Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics, UT Austin

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