Usually means: Collapsed star, emits no light.
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  1. dark star: Merriam-Webster
  2. dark star: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dark star: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dark star: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dark star: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. dark star: Dictionary.com
  7. Dark Star (album), Dark Star (band), Dark Star (cave), Dark Star (disambiguation), Dark Star (film), Dark Star (horse), Dark Star (song), Dark Star (soundtrack), Dark Star, Dark star (Newtonian mechanics), Dark star (dark matter), Dark star: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. dark star: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. dark star: Wiktionary

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  1. dark star: Encyclopedia

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  1. Dark Star: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (dark star)

noun:  (astronomy, physics) An extremely bright and massive hypothetical astrophysical object whose illumination is powered by annihilation of dark-matter particles and anti-particles (or by self-annihilation if they are Majorana particles).
noun:  (obsolete, astronomy, physics) A black hole: star so massive that its escape velocity is above the speed of light, making the star dark, as no light can escape.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dark, star.

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