Sci News
Jul 15, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro
The first generation of stars in the Universe is yet to be observed. There are two leading theories for those objects: hydrogen burning Population III stars and the so-called ‘dark stars,’ made of hydrogen and helium but powered by dark matter heating rather than by nuclear fusion. New research shows that JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0, and JADES-GS-z11-0 — three high-redshift galaxy candidates detected by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope — are consistent with a supermassive dark star interpretation, thus identifying the first dark star candidates.