Researchers Find Stars that May Be Made of Antimatter

Research published in Physical Review D found evidence for the possibility of antistars, stars made of antimatter. This research, if correct, could imply that substantial amounts of antimatter somehow managed to survive in isolated pockets of space.

The colored dots in this image represent 14 gamma-ray sources on the plane of the Milky Way that may come from stars made of antimatter. Credit: SIMON DUPOURQUÉ/IRAP

The team behind this new research examined 10 years' worth of observations from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. Out of…