'One supermassive dark star is as bright as an entire galaxy, so it could be one or the other,' Freese added. The three objects pegged as potential dark stars date to early in the universe's history - one from 330 million years after the Big Bang event that got the cosmos going 13.8 billion years ago, and the others from 370 million years and 400 million years after the Big Bang.īased on the Webb data, these objects could be either early galaxies or dark stars, Freese said.

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