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JWST May Unveil 'Dark Dwarfs': First Stars Powered by Dark Matter at Our Galaxy's Core Celestial bodies termed "Dark Dwarfs" may lie concealed at the heart of our galaxy, potentially offering crucial insights into one of cosmology's greatest enigmas — dark matter . A New Class of Celestial Bodies: Dark Dwarfs Discovery and Terminology A team of researchers from the UK and Hawaii has, for the first time, described these objects in a paper published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics . The study outline how their existence might be confirmed using current instruments such as the James Webb Space Telescope. The paper is entitled " Dark Dwarfs: Dark Matter-Powered Sub-Stellar Objects Awaiting Discovery at the Galactic Centre. " The Anglo-American research team coined the term "Dark Dwarfs" —not due to the objects lack of luminosity, but owing to their unique association with dark matter, a central focus in modern cosmology a...