{
  "id": 3740797,
  "title": "A mysterious cosmic hum may come from 13-billion-year-old dark stars",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/a-mysterious-cosmic-hum-may-come-from-13-billion-year-old-dark-stars",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-27T10:26:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "ScienceDaily",
    "slug": "sciencedaily",
    "url": "https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/08/260827010457.htm"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Today’s mysterious gravitational-wave background may preserve clues about how the Universe’s first supermassive black holes formed. Descendants of hypothetical Dark Stars could be responsible for a major portion of the signal, offering a surprising new way to investigate cosmic dawn and dark matter.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}