most citedSupermassive Dark Stars and their remnants as a possible solution to three recent cosmic dawn puzzles

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Early Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via Dark Star Gravitational Instability

Katherine Freese, George M. Fuller, Sohan Ghodla +4

We show that dark stars, which are dark-matter-powered stars in the early universe, can grow by accretion to masses in the range $\mathscr{O}\left ({10}^4\right )-\mathscr{O}\left…

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Spectroscopic Supermassive Dark Star candidates

Cosmin Ilie, Sayed Shafaat Mahmud, Jillian Paulin +1

Dark Stars, i.e. early stars composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium but powered by Dark Matter, could form in zero metallicity clouds located close to the center of high r…