Meaning of dark star | Babel Free

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1. An extremely bright and massive hypothetical astrophysical object whose illumination is powered by annihilation of dark-matter particles and anti-particles (or by self-annihilation if they are Majorana particles).
2. A black hole: star so massive that its escape velocity is above the speed of light, making the star dark, as no light can escape.
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3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, star.

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