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Did JWST Discover Dark Matter Stars?
Season 9
Episode 22
No one was expecting that JWST would find a completely new type of star—one mostly made of and powered by dark matter and shining as bright as an entire galaxy. Which, by the way, might help us explain those pesky giant galaxies.
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