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No, not if it's weakly interacting. Matter forms big balls because it collides with other matter and turns kinetic energy into heat. If dark matter is weakly i
by wyager 10y ago
No, not if it's weakly interacting.
Matter forms big balls because it collides with other matter and turns kinetic energy into heat. If dark matter is weakly interacting, it won't collide, so after falling into a star it will just shoot right back out the other side. It might form a stable orbit, but it also might just fly away and fall through some other gravity well.
You can probably expect some bulk gravitational effects (e.g. Dark matter might tend to cluster along large matter distributions like galaxies), but in general it wouldn't be amenable to staying in one place.