Dark Matter that can form Dark Stars — mentioned by bbor

Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:07:28 GMT

I'm an amateur but I feel confident enough to answer -- hopefully not a mistake! They're explicitly looking for "Dark Matter", which doesn't "interact" with normal ("baryonic") matter or electromagnetic radiation (e.g. light). So it's not a black hole for sure, as those are composed of regular ol' matter. RE:"dark star", that's really up in the air, I'd say! AFAICT the only academic reference to that term is for normal stars influenced by dark matter[1], but kinda the whole problem here is that we don't know much about what dark matter is composed of or into. Certainly it's not going to be a…

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Dark Matter that can form Dark Stars — mentioned by bbor