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Dark Stars: Cradle of Giant Black Holes ⚡ экспресс

Original: "Early Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Dark Star Gravitational Instability"
arXiv:2511.08578 · 2025-11-11 · CC BY 4.0 · ⏱ 1 min · Cosmology General Relativity HEP Phenomenology
In the infant Universe, stars powered by dark matter could grow to monstrous sizes and collapse into black holes.
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In the early Universe, before ordinary stars existed, giant clumps of dark matter lit up like flashlights. These dark stars grew by devouring gas until they turned into black holes — possibly the ancestors of the monsters lurking in galactic centers.

🎯 A giant dark star would span the distance from the Sun to Pluto, yet its surface would give off less heat than a household light bulb — a stunning contrast between size and temperature.

Scientists
Alan GuthAndrei LindeGeorges LemaîtreJames PeeblesAdam RiessBrian Schmidt
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black hole dark matter big bang spacetime curvature galaxy
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Friedmann equationsHubble's lawHawking radiationgravitational lensingBekenstein-Hawking entropyEinstein field equations
Original: arXiv:2511.08578 · CC BY 4.0 · bridge42worlds