The Sun has been burning hydrogen fuel for a staggering 4.6 billion years and astrophysicists estimate it has another 7 to 8 billion years left before it sputters out and dies. All stars go through this lifecycle of formation, fuel consumption, and ultimate collapse — or do they? Stars swirling in the violent galactic center of the Milky Way are exhibiting strange properties. A peculiar cluster of such stars could become “immortal” by continuously capturing and destroying dark matter particles in their cores, a new study suggests. In effect, such stars may be primarily fueled by dark matter in…