ethericalzen writes “A BBC article highlights a theory that the first stars might have been powered by dark matter. A group of US scientists published a paper in Physical Review Letters speculating that, unlike the stars of this day, which are powered by nuclear fusion, early stars might have been powered by the abundant dark matter crowding the universe after the Large Bang. The theory suggests that these stars would have collided and destroyed one another before nuclear fusion had a chance take hold.” The BBC perhaps overstates the certainty with which the dark-matter theory is held, and doesn’t mention that the postulated properties of such particles are absolutely speculative.
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