The exact composition of 84 percent of all the matter in the universe is unknown. That is the portion, called dark matter, which neither emits radiation nor interacts with conventional matter that we already know of in any other way than through gravity. Cosmologists believe they can use the standard model of the universe, Lambda-CDM, to get to the bottom of dark matter. This model assumes that dark matter is “cold” (cold dark matter – CDM).
In physics, “cold” means that something is moving slowly...
Published on November 03, 2019 12:10