{"id":245948,"date":"2026-10-26T01:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/dark-stars-the-weird-invisible-monsters-of-the-early-universe-that-could-still-exist-today"},"modified":"2026-10-26T01:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:06:36","slug":"dark-stars-the-weird-invisible-monsters-of-the-early-universe-that-could-still-exist-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/dark-stars-the-weird-invisible-monsters-of-the-early-universe-that-could-still-exist-today","title":{"rendered":"Dark stars \u2014 the weird, invisible monsters of the early Universe that could still exist today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They may be bigger than the orbit of the planet Saturn, they\u2019re about as massive as the Sun, they\u2019re invisible, and they\u2019re powered by annihilating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyatnightmagazine.com\/news\/what-is-dark-matter\">dark matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meet the dark stars \u2013 the first settlers of the newborn Universe. Some of them might even still be around today.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a weird idea: giant, extremely tenuous stars that don\u2019t give off any visible light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They may be bigger than the orbit of the planet Saturn, they\u2019re about as massive as the Sun, they\u2019re invisible, and they\u2019re powered by annihilating dark matter. Meet the dark stars \u2013 the first settlers of the newborn Universe. Some of them might even still be around today. It\u2019s a weird idea: giant, extremely tenuous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245948","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}