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'Dark stars' could be the seeds of supermassive black holes, scientists say

'Dark stars' could be the seeds of supermassive black holes, scientists sayWorldPing

A mysterious hum of gravitational waves that fills the cosmos may be the echo of long-dead "dark stars" that served as the seeds of the first supermassive black holes.

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