The Dynamical Evidence for Dark Matter

FEB 01, 1992

Studies of the dynamics of galaxies show that at least 90% of the mass in the universe is in some invisible, unknown form.

DOI: 10.1063/1.881329

Scott Tremaine

Almost all of our information about the universe beyond Earth comes from photons—visible photons from stars, xray photons from hot plasmas, radio photons from the 21‐cm hyperfine transition in hydrogen, microwave photons from the cosmic background radiation and so forth.

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Scott Tremaine, Canadian Institute, University of Toronto.