ethericalzen writes "An article at the BBC News online has highlighted a theory that the first stars may have been powered by dark matter. A group of US scientists, Douglas Spolyar, Katherine Freese, and Paolo Gondolo published a paper in the physics journal Physical Review Letters, February 4th 2008. The paper explains that unlike the stars of today, which are powered by nuclear fusion, early stars would have been powered by the abundant dark matter after the Big Bang. The theory suggests that these stars would have fused together and destroyed one another before nuclear fusion had a chance to start. There are no details yet about what the dark matter stars may have looked like; however, in five years that may change with the launching of the Hubble successor, the James Webb Space Telescope." Link to Original Source
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