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Does dark matter interact with other dark matter, besides by gravity?
Supposedly dark matter is matter that interacts with normal matter by gravity, and little or not at all by any other force. But how does it interact with other dark matter? Also only by gravity, or could there be other forces that affect it?
If only gravity affects it, would it tend to collapse to form "dark black holes", and if so, would those be indistinguishable from normal black holes? I would assume they would be pretty similar, since in any case we can only detect black holes through their gravitation. Only perhaps dark matter black holes could occur in other mass ranges besides stellar mass and supermassive.
Or would not having other interactions besides gravity prevent accumulations of dark matter from being able to shed excess kinetic energy and angular momentum, so that they couldn't collapse, but instead would orbit the center of mass. Isn't it possible to still shed energy via tidal interactions?
Supposing it does interact, is it possible that it has an exactly parallel set of interactions to normal matter, so that there is for example a dark electric charge, where dark positive charges attract dark negative charges, but have no effect on normal matter positive and negative charges. And dark charges imply a dark photon to carry the force. Dark strong forces would allow dark fusion in dark stars. Doesn't that blow your mind? There could be a whole parallel galaxy to ours occupying the same space.
Is there anything that isn't possible about that hypothesis? How could we test it? With sensitive gravity probes could we start to map the dark matter in our nearby interstellar space to a high degree of accuracy?
If galaxies are filled with dark stars radiating dark light, could dark light be dark energy? Or is it still not enough to account for all the dark energy?
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- Anonymous8 years agoFavorite Answer
well first off the whole problem with dark energy is that we don't know anything about. We are pretty sure (though we could always be wrong) that it's there. Otherwise our calculations of gravitational attraction within a galaxy wouldn't match up with what we see.
It's possible that there exist other forces that interact only among dark matter, but we really have no idea. If it did collapse into a black hole it would essentially be indistinguishable from a regular one other than obvious traits like mass, spin, etc.
Your idea is interesting and I'm not too sure if it's really impossible, hey it used to be impossible that space is actually bent, it used to be impossible to fly. Testing your idea though is a totally different thing. Like I said we really don't know a whole lot about dark matter other than the fact that it we think it's there and doesn't interact with any normal matter.
Dark energy should not be confused with dark matter. Could there be a connection? Sure but there's no reason to think so, yet... Dark matter helps glue stuff together, while dark energy pulls space apart.
- 5 years ago
Initially, neutrinos should not "invisible." they may be visible at all times in high-power particle accelerators. Secondly, the low mass of neutrinos has been figured into the seek for adequate 'usual' matter to account for the configuration/motion of galaxies and we nonetheless come up quick.