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- After dark matter first clumped together, it attracted large clouds of hydrogen. When the clouds grew large enough, the heat and pressure from gravity started fusing the hydrogen, igniting the first star.
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Jul 20, 2023 · Dark matter is a mysterious form of matter that does not interact with electromagnetic forces; scientists know it exists only because of its gravitational effects, and they don’t know what it’s...
Jul 13, 2021 · Matter began to clump together, pulling in ever more material through gravitational attraction. It may have been dark matter — the mysterious substance that has yet to be directly detected —...
A dark star is a hypothetical type of star that may have existed early in the universe before conventional stars were able to form and thrive.
Jul 24, 2023 · The hypothetical stars would have formed from clouds of hydrogen and helium that drew in locally abundant dark matter as they coalesced.
Mar 23, 2024 · These WIMP-powered dark stars are predicted to be supermassive and to live only for a short time in the early universe. But they could be observed by the James Webb space telescope. A recent...
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May 23, 2014 · Dark stars, entirely speculative entities for now, are hypothesized to form in the early cosmos when dark matter condenses and associated particle annihilation reactions heat up the matter, perhaps disrupting the formation of normal stars.
May 7, 2009 · A key assumption in the standard model is that the dark matter interacts with the baryons only via gravity. However, dark matter can indirectly affect the dynamics of a pre-stellar gas.
