Did JWST Discover Dark Matter Stars?

Astronomy 50 years ago: Stare at tiny dots until you see enough to learn something. Astronomy today: Stare at nothing until you see tiny dots.

Matt is so OP he travelled back in time to give us the upcoming episode on Dark Stars early.

Its crazy that John Mitchell had the idea that stars were so big that their gravity wouldn't allow it's light to shine in the 1700s what a under rated astronomer!

Just looked up and read about John Michell. Guy needs more recognition! He predicted black holes in the 18th century and actually conceived of and designed the apparatus for the Cavendish experiment but died before he could carry it out, and then his friend Cavendish finished the work.

MASSIVE appreciation for the visualisation team. Every video I'm flabbergasted by the quality of these animations. 👏🏼

The real Matt O'Dowd would have said "How do you think I survive so long, out here...in Space Time".

The Webb telescope is awesome. Can't wait to see more discoveries!

I also like the theory that these kind of stars are black hole stars, so that the pressure in a young universe was too great for the explosion at the creation of a start to push the gasses away, as it happens in modern star systems, but that they stayed close to the star, force feeding it with more and more material until the core collapsed into a black hole while the exterior still remain a star, force feeding the star-corpse to grow bigger and bigger while the radiation of the black hole keeps the star from completely collapsing into it.

What I love about the universe is that the more we find out, the less we know.

Matt O'Dowd is the best astronomy and physics educator on YouTube.

Another exceptional PBS SpaceTime episode. This is one of the best or possibly the best physics short form series out there. The density of information is In each episode astounding. Thank you for providing content that continues to push and often exceed my limits of comprehension ability. It's crazy how we evolve over time. Concepts that pushed the limits of my comprehension ability a couple years ago, seem easy to understand to me now. Thanks to PBS SpaceTime, there is no risk of me being left without mind-bending comprehension limit challenges anytime soon.😊 Wonderful job, everyone.

I’m always extremely impressed by how you are able to communicate this type of information to the common person who is not a physics student or physicist… enough for someone who is not to be able to understand and follow along. It’s why I love this channel. I’m absolutely fascinated by all that is quantum physics and mechanics as well as astronomy and physics as a whole. Thank you for making it easy enough to follow!❤❤❤

It's an attractive idea in its tidiness -- dark stars -> really big black holes --> quasars --> modern galaxies with SMBH cores

PBS Space Time always has top quality Space content, That is for sure.

This channel keeps delivering incredible science content, huge well done to the whole team!

Damn, Matt really is a master of space time, he went back in time to make an episode about dark stars just to flex while answering a comment.

we are so lucky to have such high quality programs available to us at the push of a button, anytime, anywhere… thanks pbs team!

Queue people thinking this will make scientist panic because they were wrong about something. Queue scientists being super exited because they were wrong about something. Awesome explanation. As always, thanks for your awesome work.

There's a bit of handwaving around the step where normal matter is finally affected. Any particle that a dark matter particle can annihilate into, has to also be a particle it can interact with. So somehow there's a chain of interactions that connect dark matter with normal matter. This whole aspect could use more explanation.

Best PBS lines ever: "SPACE IS SO BIG THAT WE RAN OUT OF COOL NAMES YEARS AGO"