Prof. Cosmin Ilie speaks on the NPR show Science Friday about his team's findings on the existence of Dark Stars. Their work was recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Listen to the conversation.
The galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 is one of the most distant ever observed using the JWST, and may harbor a supermassive dark star at its core. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Brant Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), Ben Johnson (CfA), Sandro Tacchella (Cambridge), Phill Cargile (CfA)