Cosmin Ilie

Dark stars, shining from collisions of dark matter particles, became the progenitors of the largest black holes in the Universe. They grew to millions of solar masses, then collapsed, leaving behind seeds for future giants.

Observations by the JWST have revealed a population of compact, anomalously red and bright sources in the early Universe — the so-called 'little red dots' (LRDs). Their nature remains a mystery: standard models of stars or active galactic nuclei cannot explain their spectra. One candidate is quasi-s