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Are there stars made of dark matter?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How to Make a Star Out of Dark Matter

If you made a star out of dark matter, if you could, we don't know that. What kind of powers would it have? What would it be like? And is 't even possible. So i guess let's talk first about how to make a regular star, and then we'll see if that applies to dark matter,. or if it can apply to dark matter. A star has a few ingredients. One is the raw materials forhow you start with like a big cloud of gas or dust left over from the explosion of a previous generation - so there are lots of different kinds of stars in our galaxy. The second ingredient is gravity which pulls together all these small objects into one

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