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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Dark Matter May Have Powered Universe's First Stars


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An artist's conception shows a "dark star"—a scorching hot, dark-matter-powered core surrounded by cooler clouds of hydrogen and helium—in infrared light.

Such gigantic bodies may have been the universe's first stars, suggests a new theoretical study.

Image courtesy The University of Utah