Is Dark Matter Real?

Viewer Rubin kicked all this off by saying, you know, stars are moving way too fast and we need an explanation. And the basic idea now is that it's dark matter because that could provide all the extra gravity we need. "I can get behind the idea that we don't actually have to know every tiny detail of a thing in order to understand how it works," he says.

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