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Why are WIMP dark matter particles, if Majorana-like, expected to annihilate upon contact? But not neutrinos?

I have heard a lot recently about so-called 'dark stars'; stars that are formed with the help of the gravitational pull of dark matter, or perhaps entirely from self-annihilating Majorana-type dark ...
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What's the percentage of strange matter inside a star at any time?

Is there any amount of strange matter (or "top matter"?) inside stars? By strange matter I mean matter made out of flavours of quark other than up/down.
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