"Exploring the Possibility of Black Holes Within the Sun: A New Frontier in Dark Matter Research"

Researchers, including a team from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, have proposed the existence of "Hawking stars," which are stars with small primordial black holes at their centers. These stars could potentially live as long as normal stars and might be indistinguishable from them at the surface level. The study suggests that such stars could provide insights into dark matter and the early universe. Asteroseismology could be used to detect these stars, and upcoming projects like PLATO may help in discovering them. The research opens up the possibility of using Hawking stars to test the existence of primordial black holes and their role in the composition of dark matter.