Because it doesn't interreact with light or electromagnetism, dark matter exists to us only through its influence on visible ...

Different coloured distant galaxies and various stars are speckled among the black background of space surrounding the galaxy. CREDIT: ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll. ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.

Dark dwarfs, stars composed of dark matter, may be the optimal objects in which to finally discover physical dark matter in the real world.

Deep in the center of our galaxy, scientists believe a strange type of star may be quietly glowing—not from fusion like our ...