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astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited
Supermassive Dark Stars and their remnants as a possible solution to three recent cosmic dawn puzzles
Cosmin Ilie, Jillian Paulin, Andreea Petric +1
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has begun to revolutionize our view of the Cosmos. The discovery of Blue Monsters (i.e., ultra-compact yet very bright high-z galaxies) and th…
astro-ph.GA2023
UHZ1 and the other three most distant quasars observed: possible evidence for Supermassive Dark Stars
Cosmin Ilie, Katherine Freese, Andreea Petric +1
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently uncovered a new record-breaking quasar, UHZ1, at a redshift of . This discovery continues JWST's trend of confronting th…
astro-ph.GA2023★ 8 cited
Detectability of Supermassive Dark Stars with the Roman Space Telescope
Saiyang Zhang, Cosmin Ilie, Katherine Freese
The first bright objects to form in the Universe at redshift might have been Dark Stars, made primarily of hydrogen and helium but powered by dark matter. In this st…