Physicists Say There May Be Entire Planets Made of Dark Matter

This could be so awesome.

not-yet-peer-reviewed paper

The way we currently detect exoplanets, the paper notes, involves observing how the planet affects the light of its host star, because when those planets pass in front of our telescopes, it dims their stars' light just slightly. While dark matter is usually discussed in the context of individual particles, this research focuses on another form: composite structures of dark matter that could exist on a "macroscopic" level. Per their calculations, these structures could have masses as large as planets.

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