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Article: Dark matter makes Milky Way's stars extend their lifetimes by a billion years
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- The Hindustan Times
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- October 3, 2008
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London, Oct. 3 -- A new study has suggested that stars at the centre of the Milky Way could gobble up enough dark matter to extend their lifetimes by a billion or more years.
According to a report in New Scientist, if such stars are found, they could help reveal what the mysterious dark matter is actually made of.
Although it constitutes roughly 90 percent of the Milky Way's mass, dark matter is thought to be too diffuse in most parts of the galaxy to have a large effect on stars.
But, close to the colossal black hole at the galactic centre, the material might be sufficiently dense that stars can capture it at high ...