Recent content by GreenLemon

I know 10000 jupiter like planets is a stretch, but I was more thinking the possibility of there existing more mass in deep space than anything, burnt out or collapsed dwarf stars and their exo planets, asteroids etc. Just a summation of masses that don't give off light and cant be detected that...

I guess its not that much of a stretch but its just hard to directly find evidence of it. I imagine the ideal way to experiment to find it would be find localized regions outside our solar system where a lot of dark matter is predicted to be and measure distortions in gravity outside what is...

I understand the idea of it but isn't it an assumption to assume it doesn't interact with light? I mean we can observe stars because they emit light and we can observe planets around stars from the dip in light that comes from a planet passing in between the star and our field of view. but the...

I was thinking about how the dark matter theory was proposed due to inconsistencies with observed mass vs the calculated required mass for a galaxy to exist. Just wondering how we know its not just stray exoplanets or possibly even smaller collapsed stars, really any kind of mass that wouldn't...