Could Voids in space be Dark Stars or can a star not be that big?
By definition, an object so massive that even light cannot escape its gravitational pull WOULD BE a black hole. Such objects have a tendency to collapse into a very small radius, so no, it isn’t really feasible that a star could be both extremely mind-bendingly large AND allow no visible light to escape. Secondly, a star couldn’t possibly be large enough to occult a large portion of space, especially from a vantage point many light years away from it. Even the closest stars (beyond our Sun) are so distant that they appear as no more than pinpoints of light. In order for human eyes to resolve a distant star into a disk, the star would have to be billions of times more massive than our Sun. Such a star would burn through its nuclear fuel in an astonishingly short time and then explode in the mother of all supernovae. If such stars ever existed, they certainly aren’t still around and they certainly weren’t dark. Also, you don’t need huge dark stars to explain the voids. Black regions in t
Dark Star, my second favorite horse of all time (after John Henry), won the Kentucky Derby in 1953. It was a thrilling race. It was voted the biggest upset of all time in horse racing (paid $51.80!!). The horse didn’t win the Preakness (finished fifth because of injury) or the Belmont Stakes later that year. He was the only horse to beat the great Native Dancer. I know, not Astronomy, but I couldn’t resist the chance to get it in. “Dark Star” was a funky science fiction student movie of the 1970s by John Carpenter (“Escape from NY, LA”, “Halloween”, “Christine”) and Dan O’Bannion (“Alien” writer) that had some social commentary in it.
