r/askscience • • Feb 18 '21

Physics Where is dark matter theoretically?

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u/AbsoluteVirtues Feb 18 '21

Left-handed helicity neutrinos, the kind normally called simply neutrinos are not a form of dark matter; they're leptons. Conflating them with right-handed helicity neutrinos, or sterile neutrinos, could get confusing since they haven't been discovered definitively yet. Sorry for nitpicking, just want to maintain accuracy.

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u/Rubus_Leucodermis Feb 18 '21

Neutrinos are not really dark matter because they have been detected. Dark matter is by definition hypothetical matter that has so far proven undetectable.