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Could dark matter be a superfluid?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is There a Quantum Effect in Dark Matter?

Super compact dark matter forms a super fluid which has stronger gravity between the dark matter particles that are in the super fluid. With something outside of this super fluid would it feel this extra gravity or not well something inside the galaxy would but something outside the galaxy wouldn't right so something outside far far away other galaxies in the cluster wouldn't feel any change in the effective gravity. It gives us a way for like dark matter normal matter sort of talk to each other more intimatelyso effectively it solves a problem by saying you do still have some variation in how much dark matternormal matter you have, but dark matter itself acts a little bit differently.

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