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Dark Matter in the Milky Way
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2017
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If the Newtonian inverse-square law is an appropriate description of gravity, then disk galaxies, and the Milky Way in particular, contain large amounts of dark matter: in general, the observed shapes of rotation curves do not correspond to the gravitational potential of the observed stars and gas. The nature of this dark matter is still a topic of debate, the outcome of which will have important consequences for our ideas of how galaxies and larger structures in the universe formed.
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- Session 5: Dark Matter in Galaxies
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 164: Stellar Populations , 1995 , pp. 195 - 204
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- Copyright © Kluwer 1995
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Fuchs, B. and Wielen, R., 1993, Back to the Galaxy, eds. Holt, S. S. and Verter, F., p. 580
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