Dark Matter Stars in the Early Universe?

OriginalArlen writes "UniverseToday reports new research which suggests dark matter could have condensed to form 'dark stars' in the early universe. These stars would have been very massive and burned very slowly, fueled by non-fusion reactions, they could still be with us. Astronomers hope to better constrain theories of early galaxy and star formation with observations of gravitational lensing events caused by these ghosts of the primordial universe."

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On \. OriginalArlen reports the news. I look at the linked website, called Universe Today and I see that there is one "publisher" by the name of Fraser Cain. Following the link there, finally, I get to the article on the arxiv, the definitive source of new physics papers. So to get to the source, it takes three jumps. So what has Fraser Cain done for us? Watered down the content? Couldn't OriginalArlen read the article and write a gist himself/herself? Or is Fraser Cain the same person as OriginalArlen? Reading the original article, I find "some" correlation on what ends up on \. and what is in the article. Or is this not the point? If I had to write a review for this article, I would have said that the last sentence of the abstract is what is most important: "A ..star .. detectable via annihilation products (gamma-rays, neutrinos, anti-matter) possibly in combination with hydrogen lines." The brilliant thing about this article is that these theorists are cooking up something that is actually detectable! Something that can be tested and hopefully will! *Finally* congrats to Douglas Spolyar, Katherine Freese and Paolo Gondolo, who *wrote* the article. (No, I dont know any of them. But isn't it time we cited those whose ideas we regurgitate?)