Three enormously brilliant celestial objects that are referred to as "dark stars" were discovered by scientists after reviewing images acquired by the James Webb Space Telescope.
Forbes reports that the three stars captured by the Webb Telescope may be "dark stars," the first stars to emerge in the universe, according to research published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
According to reports, the "dark stars," which have only ever been theorized up until this point, are 10 billion times brighter than the Sun and were supposedly present in the universe before stars of the kind that can be seen today were thought to have formed.
Investigations on the "dark star" candidates "JADES-GS-z13-0", "JADES-GS-z12-0", and "JADES-GS-z11-0" are shedding light on the characteristics of dark matter and Webb's discovery.
It has been suggested that it might shed light on the puzzle of galaxies that are too massive to have formed immediately after the Big Bang.
A more significant finding is that the star's source of energy is dark matter.
The head of the Weinberg Institute for Theoretical Physics and study co-author Katherine Freese remarked, "Discovering a new type of star is quite interesting in and of itself, but finding out that the object powering the star is dark matter would be the bigger discovery."
It was claimed that dark matter, which is estimated to make up around 85% of the universe's stuff, is made up of a brand-new class of intangible fundamental particles and is only thought to interact with gravity. was captured.
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) asserts that while dark matter absorbs light or energy, it neither reflects nor produces any light or energy. It was underlined as a result that dark matter cannot be directly observed, that it is largely speculative, and that its presence can be explained by its gravitational pull on other objects.