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28: How to Kill a Galaxy

The Supermassive Podcast

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The Milky Way Spins Around the Core Faster Than Expected

The outer arms of the milky way spin around the core faster than expected. It means either something's wrong with gravity, or where we think the mass is is not where the mass actually is in the galaxy. The idea of dark matter is the leading theory that we have at the moment. People are also looking at modified gravity theories too.

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