Anthony Aguirre (UCSC), Peter Bodenheimer (UCSC), Katherine
Freese(Univ Of Mich), Paolo Gondolo (Univ of Utah)

We have proposed that the first phase of stellar evolution in the
history of the Universe may be Dark Stars (DS), powered by dark matter
heating rather than by nuclear fusion, and in this paper we examine
the history of these DS. The power source is annihilation of Weakly
Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) which are their own
antiparticles. These WIMPs are the best motivated dark matter (DM)
candidates and may be discovered by ongoing direct or indirect
detection searches (e.g. FERMI /GLAST) or at the Large Hadron Collider
at CERN. A new stellar phase results, powered by DM annihilation as
long as there is DM fuel, from millions to billions of years.