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The dark matter profile of the Milky Way inferred from its circular velocity curve (academic.oup.com)
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[โ€“] Ticklemytip@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can someone explain like I'm 30 something and have no clue what any of that means?

[โ€“] Dieterlan@lemmy.world 18 points 9 months ago

The Milky Way is spinning. It's spinning wrong based on the stuff we see. So, scientists think there must be stuff we can't see making it spin that way. Some scientists have drawn a picture of what it would look like if we could see the stuff.