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Re:The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter by saagarjha on Saturday October 13, 2018 @06:52PM (#18210438)
I believe it’s generally believed that dark matter clumps near galaxies because it interacts through gravity. So would it be reasonable to say that it should clump together near massive objects in the solar system?
Re:The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter by pas on Saturday October 13, 2018 @08:33PM (#18210731)
DM usually forms a halo as it orbits the center of mass of whatever it orbits (galaxy, globular cluster), and because it doesn't interact otherwise, it cannot slow down, cannot shed momentum, so it is likely mostly not a disk, but a big sphere, and probably a shell around galaxies.
Re:The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter by ianai on Sunday October 21, 2018 @12:16AM (#18266705)
That sounds a little like an additional dimension or alternative something truly “out there”. Ie maybe gravity’s force relies on some process that reverses at the macro scale.