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Do we know where dark matter is?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Dark Matter Halo for Every Galaxie

Gravity can give you a picture as to where things are in the universe. We think that dark matter is mostly lined up with the normal matter, that where you see a galaxy is where there's a huge clump of dark matter. So every galaxy, we think, for example, is embedded in a huge cloud. Ye, it's like where you see regular stars and planets, you see dark matter. Or it's almost like the opposite right? It's like whereyou see dark matter is where all the stars and planets formed.

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