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What is dark matter?

What is dark matter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (astronomy) Particles of matter that cannot be detected by their radiation but whose presence is inferred from gravitational effects.
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According to most theories of dark matter, it is too energetic to have been created by the annihilation of dark matter particles.
It is most likely that particle physicists will find dark matter, if indeed it exists in particle form.
They discussed the understanding of dark matter by the use of gravitational lenses.
Well, what you can see are the gravitational effects, both of dark matter and of the dark energy.
So far the most promising candidate for dark matter is the neutralino, because they interact weakly.
This gas forms part of a gigantic system of hot gas and dark matter that defines the cosmic landscape.

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