{"id":229064,"date":"2026-01-15T01:22:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/dark-stars-may-solve-three-of-jwsts-biggest-cosmic-mysteries"},"modified":"2026-01-15T01:22:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:22:33","slug":"dark-stars-may-solve-three-of-jwsts-biggest-cosmic-mysteries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/dark-stars-may-solve-three-of-jwsts-biggest-cosmic-mysteries","title":{"rendered":"Dark Stars May Solve Three of JWST\u2019s Biggest Cosmic Mysteries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dark-stars-may-solve-three-of-jwsts-biggest-cosmic-mysteries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including unusually bright galaxies, rapidly forming black holes, and compact objects that defy conventional explanations. A new study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed unexpected features in the early universe, including unusually bright galaxies, rapidly forming black holes, and compact objects that defy conventional explanations. A new study led by Colgate Assistant Professor of Physics and As<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}