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Dark matter is so named because it does not interact electromagnetically and thus isn't observed directly with visible light; yet possesses mass. Dark matter is significant to cosmology due to unsolved questions arising from observations about the apparent mass of the universe. Several candidates have been proposed for the makeup of dark matter including near-massless subatomnic particles such as neutrinos.

The term 'black material' by contrast would imply something far more mundane, the simple property of matter wherein its surface would tend to absorb a significant fraction of incident light and thus have a black appearance to an observer.

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