The region also contains some surprisingly heavy stars and fewer old stars than expected.
Effectively, the stars have a long, long way to go before they start running low on fuel.
Dark matterappears to make up 27% of the universe, but it has so far eluded direct detection.
The Milky Way center, as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope.Image:NASA, JPL-Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al.
In other words, astronomers cannot see it in any band of light using existing instruments.
Though dark matter is invisible to us, its gravitational effects are apparent.
The newly introduced paper is hardly the first to explore how dark matter could interact with stars.
Last July, yet another team suggested that the Webb Telescope had detectedstars that were powered by dark matter.
Rather, the stars must have formed elsewhere and migrated towards the Galactic Center.
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