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  • Antimatter interacts with regular matter in more ways than just annihilation. Annihilation just happens to be a process that’s uniquely available to antiparticles and has a high probability of occurring. This is because antiparticles have both opposite electric charges to standard particles and opposite color charge, so annihilation between particle/anti particle pairs conserves these quantities.

    It’s unlikely that there’s an anti-matter equivalent of dark matter. If there was, we’d expect to see annihilation radiation, such as the 511 keV photons emitted when positron+electron pairs annihilate.