Very interesting! On Sun, 16 Jul 2023 at 23:58, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > As early as 2012 scientists predicted that the Hubble telescope would see > something they called a "Dark Star". > > Observing supermassive dark stars with James Webb Space Telescope > > They theorized in the early universe Dark Matter, whatever it is, must've > been much more densely concentrated than it is today, and if Dark Matter > particles are their own antiparticles as many think then their annihilation > could provide a heat source, they could keeping star in thermal and > hydrodynamic equilibrium and prevent it from collapsing. They hypothesized > something they called a "Dark Star '', it would be a star with a million > times the mass of the sun and would be composed almost entirely of hydrogen > and helium but with 0.1% Dark Matter. A Dark Star would not be dark but > would be 10 billion times as bright as the sun and be powered by dark matter > not nuclear fusion. > > Astronomers were puzzled by pictures taken with the James Webb telescope that > they interpreted to be bright galaxies just 320 million years after the Big > Bang that were much brighter than most expected them to be that early in the > universe, a recent paper by the same people that theorized existence of Dark > Stars claim they could solve this puzzle. They claim 3 of the most distant > objects that the Webb telescope has seen are point sources, as you'd expect > from a Dark Star, and their spectrum is consistent with what they predicted a > Dark Star should look like. With a longer exposure and a more detailed > spectrum, Webb should be able to tell for sure if it's a single Dark Star or > an early galaxy made up of tens of millions of population 3 stars. > > Supermassive Dark Star candidates seen by JWST > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > > 3vy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv02R9uavpw5wXxn_gepp7X_tx%3DQR-RR6KqgiJpebikbpA%40mail.gmail.com.
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