Physicists discover mysterious new type of time crystal
  Science Daily - October 15, 2025

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope hint that the universe's first stars might not have been ordinary fusion-powered suns, but enormous supermassive dark stars powered by dark matter annihilation. These colossal, luminous hydrogen-and-helium spheres may explain both the existence of unexpectedly bright early galaxies and the origin of the first supermassive black holes.