Thursday, December 9, 2010

Macho Dark Matter

              Objects included in macho dark matter include white dwarfs, brown dwarfs, black holes, neutron stars and faint red dwarfs. All objects contained in macho dark matter are either the remnants of old stars that have completed their evolutionary cycle or failed stars. White dwarfs are typically about the size of the earth and are formed when a star sheds its outter layers into a planetary nebula. The white dwarf is the core of the star that remains. Brown dwarfs are similar in size to Jupiter and are failed stars. Black holes are about the size of a pinhole and are formed when a supermassive star dies. Neutron stars are about 10 km in diameter and are formed when less massive stars die. Red dwarfs are about half as massive as the Sun and are low-mass stars. All dark macho dark matter is remnents of stars that have completed their cycle so many types of them could be near each other if they were in binary star systems. They are objects that are hard to detect and they are highly massive. They can detect these objects by looking about how objects move. Like objects that orbit something we can not see we can figure out there is mass there. Also they can tell if light bends around another object.

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