Planets made of dark matter may have blown up, and we could see them - Space.com


8/3/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
by Paul Sutter

A new hypothesis proposes that a large fraction of dark matter may be bound up inside tight balls the size of Neptune — so-called dark matter planets.

Dark matter remains frustratingly elusive. We have not seen any direct detection in any of our laboratory experiments, and at cosmic scales we only have circumstantial evidence that it exists.  Now,… [+4878 chars]

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