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Why do we think dark matter is made of particles?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Dark Matter and the Wimp Miracle

The wimp miracle could explain what dark matter is because it's a big mystery out there. Some people wonder, you know, why isn't dark matter just nutrinos? We think that dark matter is cold, that it's slow moving. And we can tell because the way it clumps and clusters and falls into these gravitational wells that shape galaxies. So we're pretty sure dark matter's not nutrinos. It's some sort of slow moving object. Couldn't they be slow mov nutrinos, like slowNutrinos? There could be, but what makes slow Nutrinos? You know, nutrinos are produced in stars, and when they come out

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