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Theory Posits Early Stars Powered By Dark Matter

Posted by kdawson on from the here-there-be-winps dept.

ethericalzen writes "A BBC article highlights a theory that the first stars may have been powered by dark matter. A group of US scientists published a paper in Physical Review Letters speculating that, unlike the stars of today, which are powered by nuclear fusion, early stars might have been powered by the abundant dark matter crowding the universe after the Big 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 completely speculative.

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  1. Your tax dollars funded this, but no article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm guessing that Physical Review hasn't opened up their website for free viewing of articles by citizens who bankroll the research. (abstracts != the whole article)

    1. Re:Your tax dollars funded this, but no article by Quadraginta · · Score: 0, Troll

      Oh that's right, because Physical Review is edited and typeset by elves, who don't need a salary, so WTF is the journal insisting on an income for? Wretched selfish antisocial bastards.

  2. Re:Michigan researchers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    fuck michigan!

  3. Re:Overstates? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... who's ... Are you literate? Just asking.

    And no, Neptune didn't explain anything. The orbital perturbations are still not sufficiently explained. Neptune and Pluto/Charon aren't big enough. They were in the right place in the sky when someone was looking, but something else is out there.
  4. She was raped 37 times and by FakEbay · · Score: 0, Troll

    FUCK EBAY