Hot dark matter

Hot dark matter

Hot dark matter is a hypothetical form of dark matter which consists of particles that travel with ultrarelativistic velocities. The best candidate for the identity of hot dark matter is the neutrino. Neutrinos have very small masses, and do not partake in two of the four fundamental forces, the electromagnetic interaction and the strong interaction. They "do" interact by the weak interaction, and gravity, but due to the feeble strength of these forces, they are difficult to detect. A number of projects, such as the Super-Kamiokande neutrino observatory, in Gifu, Japan are currently studying these neutrinos.

Dark matter is matter that cannot be detected by electromagnetic radiation, hence "dark". It is postulated to exist to explain how clusters and superclusters of galaxies formed after the big bang. Data from galaxy rotation curves indicate that around 90% of the mass of a galaxy cannot be seen. It can only be detected by its gravitational effect.

Hot dark matter cannot explain how individual galaxies formed from the big bang. The microwave background radiation as measured by the COBE satellite is very smooth and fast moving particles cannot clump together on this small scale from such a smooth initial clumping. To explain small scale structure in the Universe it is necessary to invoke cold dark matter. Hot dark matter therefore is nowadays always discussed as part of a mixed dark matter theory.

ee also

* Dark matter
**Warm dark matter (WDM)
**Cold dark matter (CDM)
* Lambda-CDM model
* Modified Newtonian Dynamics

External links

* [http://astron.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/darkmatter/hdm.html Hot dark matter by Berkeley]
* [http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr162/lect/cosmology/darkmatter.html Dark Matter]


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