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Illustration of a rapidly rotating brown dwarf
NASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology
Dark matter-fueled brown dwarfs may be lurking in the centers of galaxies, and if astronomers can find them, they could teach us about how dark matter interacts with regular matter.
Brown dwarfs are giant balls of gas with masses between 13 and 72 times that of Jupiter, but smaller than stars, with too little matter to sustain hydrogen fusion in their cores. The threshold at which a brown dwarf begins to fuse hydrogen and become a star is…
Source: www.newscientist.com