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ABSTRACT

1.INTRODUCTION

2.DARK MATTER IN GALAXIES AND CLUSTERS

2.1.The Beginnings of the Dark Matter Problem and Rotation Curves

2.2.Gravitational Lensing

2.3.Hot Gas in Clusters

2.4.Bullet Cluster

3.COSMIC ABUNDANCES

3.1.The Cosmic Microwave Background

3.2.Primordial nucleosynthesis

3.3.Dark Energy

4.DARK MATTER CANDIDATES

4.1.MACHOs

4.2.Nonbaryonic Dark Matter

4.3.Axions

4.4.WIMPs

5.FOUR PRONGED APPROACH TO WIMP DETECTION

5.1.Production at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN

5.2.Direct Detection Experiments

5.3.Indirect Detection

5.4.Summary of WIMP Searches

6.DARK STARS

6.1.Three Criteria for Dark Matter Heating

6.2.Building up the Mass

6.3.Later stages: Capture

6.4.Supermassive Dark Stars

6.5.Dark Stars are Detectable in James Webb Space Telescope

6.6.Supermassive Black Holes

6.7.Pulsations

7.STERILE NEUTRINOS

8.WHAT'S HOT IN DARK MATTER

9.CONCLUSION

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