Cold dark matter
Cold dark matter is a refinement of the big bang theory that contains the additional assumption that most of the Universe consists of material which cannot be observed by its electromagnetic radiation and hence is dark while at the same time the particles making up this matter are slowly moving and hence are cold. As of 2003, most cosmologists[?] favor the cold dark matter theory as a description of how the universe went from a smooth initial state at early times (as shown by the cosmic microwave background radiation), to the lumpy distribution of galaxies and their clusters we see today — the large-scale structure of the universe.In the cold dark matter theory, structure grows hierarchically, with small objects collapsing first and merging in a continuous hierarchy to form more and more massive objects. In the hot dark matter paradigm, popular in the early eighties, structure doesn't form hierarchically (bottom-up), but rather forms by fragmentation (top-down), with the largest superclusters forming first in flat pancake-like sheets and subsequently fragmenting into smaller pieces like our galaxy the Milky Way. The predictions of hot dark matter strongly disagree with observations of large-scale structure, whereas the cold dark matter paradigm is in general agreement with the observations. Two important discrepancies between the predictions the cold dark matter paradigm and observations of galaxies and their clustering in space have arisen, however, creating a crisis for the cold dark matter picture; The cuspy halo problem[?], and the missing satellites[?] problem.
The theory makes no predictions about exactly what the cold dark matter particles are, and the biggest weakness in cold dark matter is that there is no known particle that has the required properties. One candidate is a hypothetical particle known as a WIMP or Weakly Interacting Massive Particle.
See also: dark matter
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