Re:The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
by saagarjha on Saturday October 13, 2018 @06:52PM
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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?
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Re:The Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter
by pas on Saturday October 13, 2018 @08:33PM
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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.