Hot dark matter Dark matter
hot dark matter consists of particles fsl larger size of protogalaxy. neutrino qualifies such particle. discovered independently, long before hunt dark matter: postulated in 1930, , detected in 1956. neutrinos mass less 10 of electron. neutrinos interact normal matter via gravity , weak force, making them difficult detect (the weak force works on small distance, neutrino triggers weak force event if hits nucleus head-on). makes them weakly interacting light particles (wilps), opposed wimps.
the 3 known flavours of neutrinos electron, muon, , tau. masses different. neutrinos oscillate among flavours move. hard determine exact upper bound on collective average mass of 3 neutrinos (or of 3 individually). example, if average neutrino mass on 50 ev/c (less 10 of mass of electron), universe collapse. cmb data , other methods indicate average mass not exceed 0.3 ev/c. thus, observed neutrinos cannot explain dark matter.
because galaxy-size density fluctuations washed out free-streaming, hot dark matter implies first objects can form huge supercluster-size pancakes, fragment galaxies. deep-field observations show instead galaxies formed first, followed clusters , superclusters galaxies clump together.
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