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[Interview] Can Axions Be Dark Matter?

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Wave-Based Dark Matter

Very light particles are going to have very large wavelengths. Their wavelength is so large that on astrophysical scales, they kind of behave like waves. So theoretically, you could throw streams of dark matter particles and they would interfere through interference patterns like photons. They just wouldn't show this kind of thing with massive particles.

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