Colloquium

Department of Physics & Astronomy

Dark Stars, or how dark matter can make a star shine

March 17, 2010l Hit 963
Date : March 17, 2010 16:00 ~
Speaker : P. Gondolo(U Utah)
Professor :
Location : 56동106호
The first stars in the universe may have been shined due to dark matter
annihilation instead of nuclear fusion. They were dark matter-powered stars,
or for short Dark Stars. Annihilation of weakly interacting massive
particles may have provided the necessary heating. In this talk, I will
briefly report on the story of Dark Stars: how they formed, how they
evolved, and how they might have died.