Cold-dark-matter N-body simulations consistently predict that dark-matter halos should have steep cuspy density profiles in their centers, where density rises sharply toward the core (the NFW profile, ρ ∝ r⁻¹). High-resolution observations of dwarf galaxies and low-surface-brightness galaxies consistently reveal flat cored profiles instead, with central dark-matter density approximately constant over a substantial inner radius. The discrepancy between the predicted cusp and the observed core is a 5σ tension (de Blok 2010; Bullock & Boylan-Kolchin 2017).
The standard model assumes cold collisionless dark matter exists as particles that gravitationally cluster into NFW halos. The cuspy NFW profile is a near-universal prediction of cold-collisionless-DM N-body simulations. Resolving the observed cores requires either baryonic-feedback fine-tuning at unphysically high efficiency, or new dark-matter physics (warm DM, self-interacting DM, fuzzy DM), all of which face their own observational constraints.
SCT replaces the hot-dense-center with a superluminal collision and the thermalized debris field that became our visible universe. SCT has no dark-matter particle anywhere in its framework. There are no NFW halos because there is nothing to populate them. The observed dwarf-galaxy mass profiles are produced by a completely different underlying physics: baryonic mass plus the coherent gravitational-superposition contribution from the parent-frame mesh.
The effective gravitational potential at any point in the dwarf galaxy is Φ_eff(r) = Φ_local(r) + Φ_mesh(r), where Φ_local is the potential from the visible baryonic matter inside the dwarf and Φ_mesh is the coherent superposition contribution from comoving structures in the parent-frame hierarchy (P45, P46). The mesh contribution at dwarf-galaxy scales averages over the parent-frame structure on much larger scales, and the averaging process produces a smooth potential rather than a cuspy one. Smooth potentials produce cored mass profiles when interpreted under the (incorrect) NFW-particle framework. The observed cores in dwarf galaxies are therefore not failures of DM physics. They are the predicted M6 signature of a smooth coherent-mesh contribution combined with the visible baryonic distribution.
The diversity of observed core sizes across different dwarf galaxies, which is itself a problem for the standard DM picture, becomes a natural consequence of the M6 framework. Different dwarfs sit in different parent-frame environments and inherit different mesh contributions. The Radial Acceleration Relation (the tight empirical correlation between observed acceleration and baryonic mass that holds across many decades of galaxy properties) is naturally explained by the coherent-mesh contribution f[N, α, r] modifying the effective gravitational source on top of the baryonic distribution (P47).
The toggle from hot-dense-center to superluminal-collision-and-thermalized-debris-field eliminates the need for the dark-matter particle entirely. There is no DM cusp because there is no DM. The entire DM-particle framework was an artifact of trying to make a hot-dense-center origin produce the observed gravitational dynamics, and once you replace that origin with the SCT framework, the cuspy NFW profile prediction simply does not arise. The framework that generated the prediction does not apply.
If a definitive direct-detection of a dark-matter particle is achieved in any laboratory experiment (LZ, XENONnT, future-generation searches, indirect-detection signatures from Fermi-LAT, collider production at LHC), the no-DM-particle premise of M6 is refuted. If dwarf-galaxy mass profiles are confirmed to follow NFW cusps after rigorous baryonic correction across a complete sample, the coherent-mesh smooth-profile prediction fails.