"Dark matter can't do collisionless that. It's just slides through the same region of space," he says. "Real, real dark matter doesn't vote to stick together or at least stay in the same region." But there is a more subtle effect, which is a whole bunch of particles coming together and losing energy collectively by spitting out some high-energy photons.

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