I don't suppose this could be one of them? https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2023/webb-reveals-colors-of-earendel-most-distant-star-ever-detected
On Sun, 16 Jul 2023, 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 > <https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/422/3/2164/1043351?login=false> > > 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 > <https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2305762120> > > John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis > <https://groups.google.com/g/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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv02R9uavpw5wXxn_gepp7X_tx%3DQR-RR6KqgiJpebikbpA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAKzbsNeo4xvZXszAi-ehKHY4%2BdQtNmg8pMMLGN%3Dyxcv9BpJvKw%40mail.gmail.com.
