James Webb Telescope glimpses possible first dark stars

Three dark stars nominated by JWST

image: These three objects (JADES-GS-z13-0, JADES-GS-z12-0 and JADES-GS-z11-0) were originally identified as galaxies in December 2022 by the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES). Now, a team including Katherine Freese of the University of Texas at Austin speculates that they may actually be dark stars, theoretical objects much larger and brighter than our sun, powered … Read more