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Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies (phys.org)

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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

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"