Could dark matter consist of compact dead stars and debris?
I’m sure a small percentage of it is. I highly doubt that “that much” is made up of dead stars. Based on the size and age of the universe (and the dark matter amounts of object very distant from us… i.e. objects that appear “younger”) that would mean that the very early universe would have had to have had an unimaginably high percentage of very high mass stars very early on, for that much dark matter to be in the form of “currently observable” dead stars. On a side note, I haven’t fully accepted the idea of dark matter. It could be something as simple as a “new physics” that could explain such a thing. Remember when people started looking for a hypothetical planet “Vulcan” because we could observe it’s effects on the precession of Mercury’s perihelion? Then, it became evident that we didn’t need a perturber of Mercury, when Einstein and GR came along? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_… This hypothetica
