• Question: I there actually any dark matter

    Asked by anon-174763 to Yewande, Tim, Melanie, Alex, Carl on 12 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by anon-174139.
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      Alex Seeney answered on 12 Jun 2018:

      We think so, yes. The matter we know about, the stuff that makes up all the stars and galaxies that we know of, only makes up about 5% of the universe – so there’s still 95% of it out there that we don’t really know about!

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      Tim Craig answered on 14 Jun 2018:

      It seems so, yes. Whilst we can’t directly observe dark matter (hence the ‘dark’), we can see the effects that it has, in terms of its mass affecting the gravitational field. This indirect observation demonstrates that there has to be *somethingMATOMO_URL

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