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Katherine Freese discusses her work in this article. The enduring mystery of dark matter has led some physicists to propose that it was forged in...

Katherine Freese, Ph.D. (NAS), The University of Texas at Austin, is a world-renowned theoretical astrophysicist who recently discovered a possible new type of star, powered...

Katherine Freese is featured in the cover article from New Scientist in September 2023. Astronomers say they have spotted evidence of stars fuelled by the...

PBS Spacetime on Katherine Freese's work on Dark Stars: Discovered in James Webb Space Telescope?

Using data and images gathered by the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astrophysicists, including Katherine Freese, has found several objects that appear to...

Stars fueled by the self-annihilation of dark matter might have been spotted for the first time by JWST

"They're big puffy beasts," said Katherine Freese, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Texas at Austin and senior author of the research published in...

The universe exists on scales of time and distance that lie entirely outside the range of human experience. It is dominated by two substances—dark matter...

Katherine Freese published her inaugural article for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

One way around that tension is to accept a different age for the universe, says cosmologist and study coauthor Mike Boylan-Kolchin of the University of...