Overview

• Researchers are developing proposals for targeted JWST and other telescope observations at the Milky Way’s center to test dark dwarf predictions.
• Dark dwarfs arise when brown dwarfs capture dark matter particles that self-annihilate, providing a steady heat source and sustained luminosity.
• These objects are expected to preserve lithium-7 and maintain constant size, temperature and brightness over billions of years.
• Survey efforts will concentrate on high dark matter density regions near the Galactic Center that conventional surveys have overlooked.
• Confirming dark dwarfs would demonstrate dark matter’s direct role in powering visible cosmic structures and constrain its particle properties.