Astrophysicists looking at images from the James Webb Space Telescope have found three bright objects that might be supermassive “dark stars”—the first-ever stars to exist in the universe.

This image represents ten total hours of observation and was captured from the Dark Sky Alqueva observatory in Portugal.

Astronomers used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to reveal 44 stars in a galaxy so far away, its light dates to when the universe was half its age.

Its swirling spiral arms display a high rate of star formation and host six detected supernovae. This image was captured with the Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera, mounted on the ...