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It's so overstated, the existence of dark matter hasn't even been proven yet.
I thought the existence of something out there was pretty well understood. We just didn't know exactly what it is and so it's called "dark matter"
Dark matter is like x and y in a quadratic equation in maths. We don't know what it is but we know it is there. It effecting the equation such that you are getting a result.
We know there is something, it is effecting the gravity around it to result the apparent motion of the stuff around it. But we don't know what it is or how it is working.
I just read that we understand only about 15% of the universe, and that 15% number doesn't really have a lot of confidence either.
In other words, we don't know shit.
All we have are models and some of them work really well to explain some things.